Territories

'Hard work/thinking about that point where world/and body intersect,' poet Sharon Fain writes in TERRITORIES. Fain is gentle yet fiercely brave in the ways she confronts how time, as it passes, brings both change and loss. Her poems are lyrical and contemplative yet always unblinking. 'Perhaps,' she writes in the closing lines of this wonderful, moving book, 'we are born for this,/to be astonished, then go on.' -- Susan Terris, author of The Homelessness of Self