The Tension Zone (Paperback)

Surprise is an element that Sarah Gorham uses with a masterful touch: subtle revelations rather than heavy-handed twists. She crafts her images as framed paintings in which you suddenly realize there is another layer behind the landscape that the surface appears to hold. In The Tension Zone a stillborn child questions its death; a daughter defaces her mother's book of Emily Dickinson poems; thought, as an embodied being, promises tearless objectivity—and brings betrayal. These poems bear a strength that will not let us look away from the brilliance of Gorham's insights.