Dark Stars

Paul Eluard once said “There is another world but it is in this one.” In Dark Stars, Ken McCullough presents a compendium of the human condition, always grounded in the natural world, and often in totemic relationships. There is lost innocence, love present, and back through time, there are tributes to friends and mentors. McCullough keeps one foot in the primal world and the other in community, yet he travels confidently from one to the other. You hear the poet making peace with mortality. Though this is a slim volume it has a deep and engaging sweep. It is a rough bouquet collected en plein air. We are left wanting more.