Noise from Stars

NOISE FROM STARS goes out beyond the comfortable with courage and creativity hand in hand on a journey into the terrifying dramas behind the shuttered windows of the past--how a life can be defined by what it refuses to see--'...why are the picnicking ladies naked / looking away, while the men / dressed like dandies / are ready to pounce?' Ms. Kaune writes with the ferocity of a war correspondent sending the news back from the battlefield of her body--her life--in a dimly lit world where thirsty ghosts drink memories from the open mouths of the dead. 'I think of God, crossing the desert / slowly, touching the ears / of an old jack rabbit / condemning it to die...' Think of your unspoken prayers for yourself--for the world--think of the last breath of a loved one--think of stumbling upon a book of poems that turns into a door you've been waiting to enter. This brilliant book takes the lens cap off the telescope and these poems remind us to look not just at our feet plodding forward but up at the hot stars that are always there.--Gary Lemons

Thirty years of marriage--surprises, sorrows, delights. These vivid poems show us ways to live and ways to face the end of living.--Peggy Shumaker