Night Ladder New Release The intimacy in witnessing this

The intimacy in witnessing this exchange is a revelation

Beginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockwork—”dear reader I’m trapped/beating on the other/page’s side”—and proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush

—Bill Yarrow

Humor and irony are also part of the poet's toolbox

the Change we are igniting

Night Ladder New Release The intimacy in witnessing thisLois P. Joness Night Ladder chronicles how the world moves spiritually and sensually through us, while also recognizing how we move through the world, watching clouds turn from oblivion into spectacle, burning the world as they go. There is a timelessness to these poems, a conversation with the present as well as with Lorca, Rilke, Picasso, and moreas if the voice of this book has slipped the temporal bounds that tether most voices to a date in