A Cartography of Peace

Poetry. Only some art knows how to teach us how to live, and in a way that we are willing, ardently willing, to be taught. Jean Connor’s A CARTOGRAPHY OF PEACE is that kind of book. By turns ‘wildly admiring’ or ‘sitting beneath the tutelage of the dark, ’ these poems take hold of me and sit me down in an attention to both language and the natural world that is riveting and wrought, silence-filled and sublime. ‘Time to read/ something old/ deeper than August, ’ says the speaker in one poem. Yes. Indeed. Right here. This whole book –Robin Beh