“How to speak of a style so fresh, so quietly exhilarating, such delicacy, such buoyancy of spirit, so dazzling in metaphor. . . .”
~ Eleanor Wilner, author of Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems
Before the Sun
“What a pleasure to have another collection by Peter Schireson! These intimate poems tell the story of the author’s move from New York City to southern California. Before the Sun is about mortality, among other things: the austere landscape of the Sonoran Desert leads Schireson to serious questions about what one human life means against the enormity of history and the natural world. But as always, Schireson brings us into the heart of his contemplative poetry with wit, imagination, and warmth.”
