Painting a Disappearing Canvas
Mark Saba’s poems move deftly and imaginatively from his Pittsburgh past to more universal themes involving “fellow inhabitants,” whom he prefers to “the cold deaths of distant stars.” These poems remind us why we are here, even as the celebrate the uncertainty of being.
ANNIE DILLARD, Pulitzer prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Mark Saba’s poems move deftly and imaginatively from his Pittsburgh past to more universal themes involving “fellow inhabitants,” whom he prefers to “the cold deaths of distant stars.” These poems remind us why we are here, even as the celebrate the uncertainty of being.
ANNIE DILLARD, Pulitzer prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Mark Saba’s poems move deftly and imaginatively from his Pittsburgh past to more universal themes involving “fellow inhabitants,” whom he prefers to “the cold deaths of distant stars.” These poems remind us why we are here, even as the celebrate the uncertainty of being.
ANNIE DILLARD, Pulitzer prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Grayson Books (2012). A signed copy of this book is available directly from me.