2007 INDIES Award winner from Forword

“[A] beautifully complex and moving tribute to the French artist, Pierre Bonnard… [His] windows, via Swensen's visionary poetics, tap the essence of life's secret moment-by-moment flow …[This] accomplished writer puts ekphrasis to the ultimate test of limning light….”
—Scott Howard, word for / word

“Evocative flashes of perception reflect the hovering knowledge that ‘all seeing is seeing as / if there were enough light.’”—Celia Bland, The Boston Review

“[M]ixed prose and verse poems trace the life and work of modernist painter Pierre Bonnard, whose ‘work implicitly asks what it is to see, and what it is to see through…’ Swensen draws relationships between disparate elements across time, space and discipline with a magician's touch.”—Publishers Weekly

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