We Are The Sum of Tiny Spaces

'We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces', Diana Brantley's second book of poetry, offers fifty new poems written in her forthright, engaging voice. She returns to her favorite subjects: nature ("Earliest Spring in Zirconia"), history ("Postcard"), family lore ("Land of Cush"), friendship ("Barbara"), and the vagaries of human knowledge ("Wein"). She also celebrates collaboration. Meditating on fiction, music, pictures, and poetry, she channels fellow artists-Fowles, Keats, Klimt, Mozart-and converses with her husband, daughters, and grandsons. Illustrations for this volume, both Diana's photographs and David Fulton's watercolor, as well as Justine Brantley's print, deepen the resonance of the poems they accompany. Gabriel Fulton's setting of one of the poems to music adds art song to this surprisingly eclectic mix.