The poems in Marble Orchard are acrylic and anxious, cinematic and
swarming. In this new collection, Corwin examines aches and acres,
roiling with voices, overly sensitive and ripe with yearning. A "marble
orchard" is a graveyard, a garden of cold flowers, a field of apples,
hushed. Marble Orchard explores physical and psychic pain through
ekphrastic poems (in response to film and to paintings), crowd-sourced
writing from overheard conversations, and formal pieces that use the
vessels of traditional poetic forms.