"Grounded in humility,
These New Orbs is a book of reckoning and radiance, conjecture and contemplation. In
this brilliant collection, Timothy Gager draws on astronomy, myth, memory,
family history, and contemporary life to fashion poems of exquisite imagery and
sonority. The “orbs” of the title become, as one experiences the whole
collection, recurring emblems—of loss and survival, desire and distance, and
the poet’s dead who remain with him, with us. Angels, eggs, planets, memories,
eyes, ghosts, regrets and promises, the emotional range of these poems is
vast. Gager is a sensible mystic,
desirous of the light, searching, skeptical and earnest. As he writes in
“Signs,” Maybe the light only finds/ those who have stopped looking. Fierce,
tender, funny, and unafraid, Gager’s work conjoins vision and craft to offer us
if not consolation, clarity. I feel grateful for these poems."
—
Richard Hoffman
author,
People Once Real
You can read some of his work off his website. HERE, I'll make it easy for you all.
