NONFICTION

Churches

by Kevin Prufer

Four Way. Apr. 2014. 96p. ISBN 9781935536437. pap. $15.95. POETRY

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Multiple Pushcart Prize winner Prufer creates stunning scenarios that observe the world from surprising angles. An avalanche victim imagines skiers overhead, a hospitalized father makes churches out of hand gestures, a train porter dying in the heat of a bomb blast recalls a baby son dying of fever. As if to clarify that perspective matters, Prufer pens this lovely line: "How darkness makes beautiful the same fire daylight ignores." [See Prepub Alert, 11/18/13.]—BH

Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Apr 15, 2014

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