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intimations of personal devastation, and eruptions of sacred memory, compose the cadence of the day, of any day in the world of these poems, its skies wavering with whatever's coming next. Mossin's spare, seemingly notational lines, always on the edge of revelation, can stop you cold, mid-page, in wonder.

What does it mean to be somewhere, anywhere? Sit with that thought, dear reader, and you may notice that geography and history, perception and memory, things and words, the self and its surrounds ceaselessly reverse into each other. In his most recent collection of poems, North & East: Daybooks, Andrew Mossin sits zazen with "this principle of drift" in a superbly crafted meditation on the interzone between here and there.

Two broken families, fractured lives, prose that often reads like poetry and a deep understanding of what it feels like to be an adopted child, who experiences a complicated world beyond his control and of which he never really feels a part. This is Andrew Mossin's heartbreaking memoir, an adoption story that is raw, revealing and painful, about the presence of someone he never knew and the struggle to find his place with the parents who raise...

The Fire Cycle extends on Andrew Mossin's previous work in Exile's Recital (2014) and Stanzas for the Preparation of Perception (2017) through poems that meditate on the multifaceted quality of self, the geographies of imaginal and lived experience, and the deep connections between human activity and nature. With spareness of form and lyric range, the poems of The Fire Cycle creates an archive of cultural lore, narrative expression, and person...

Adorno famously wrote, "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." Andrew Mossin's Torture Papers manifests that not to write Auschwitz (or for Mossin Abu Grahib, Jedwabne, and Soviet gulags) through the modalities of poetry may be barbaric. Through deft attention to poetic language and form, Mossin approaches ever closer to his documentary sources as witness becomes memorial and memorial becomes witness. It is this double directionality th...