Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager, published by small press Cherry Grove Collections, is a collection that gives voice to the thoughts, the events, and the split seconds before tragedy or fateful decisions are made that are only heard in silence. The silence is a voice, quick to speak and die out without stalking across the stage and declaring itself. Secrets are revealed in these poems, like the undiscovered joy "Deborah Sampson" (page 11) -- a woman who enlisted as a man in the Army during the Revolutionary War -- felt posing as a man and disappearing from her real self. Or in "The Moment Before the Moment" (page 19), where the narrator comes across the hidden beauty of a sunrise before the actual sun rises above the horizon. Each poem illuminates the in-between, the edge, the precipice before the collision of events or moments in time.
Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager
Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager
Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager
Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager, published by small press Cherry Grove Collections, is a collection that gives voice to the thoughts, the events, and the split seconds before tragedy or fateful decisions are made that are only heard in silence. The silence is a voice, quick to speak and die out without stalking across the stage and declaring itself. Secrets are revealed in these poems, like the undiscovered joy "Deborah Sampson" (page 11) -- a woman who enlisted as a man in the Army during the Revolutionary War -- felt posing as a man and disappearing from her real self. Or in "The Moment Before the Moment" (page 19), where the narrator comes across the hidden beauty of a sunrise before the actual sun rises above the horizon. Each poem illuminates the in-between, the edge, the precipice before the collision of events or moments in time.