The poems in Red Strawberry Leaf speak in a voice unique in American
letters, moving effortlessly beyond arbitrary city limits and national
borders, transcending trends, continents, and eras to connect individual
states of mind to the whole of Western culture. Written over seven
years, Red Strawberry Leaf meditates on the spirit's engagement with
the world in an allusive, personal style, in which neither the personal
nor the tribal holds pride of place. Scattered touches of apocalypse and
dark collective inventories serve only to highlight moments of
burnished, lyric brilliance. These challenging poems will reward readers
many times over.