David Appelbaum

Hellsmouth for Orpheus: Poems (Codhill Press) David Appelbaum

To the poet?s quest for immortal vision, "A Hellsmouth for Orpheus" offers the longing of human desire. Raw but discreet, deliberately sensual, evoking an elusive authority, this book-length poem turns to the love of song to rescue life from annihilation by the commonplace. As Appelbaum writes: nature is observed / when eros / disturbs the breath / in heights / with questions / in the mirror.

Here is a poet of unique depth and understanding of life?s most persistent questions.