By Jeffrey Galbraith
"The elegantly parsed anecdotes, observations, and memories comprising Painstaker happen a prepared and compelling wish to witness in the puzzlements of universal lifestyles a pulse of comfort, an arc of objective, the deep bass notes of desire and joy.
--Scott Cairns, writer of Slow Pilgrim: The accrued Poems
"There is constant nice authority within the writing of this e-book, evidenced all through within the ability of the unfastened verse, so variously expressive and so real to the studies defined. The latter 1/2 the e-book is a chain of poems concerning the dying by means of calamitous disease of a pal, who, from youth like a brother, used to be a fellow instructor, fellow poet, and side-by-side fellow person. it truly is probably the most outstanding such kinship sequences ever written; its depth of compassion and ache comes now not from mere store-bought announcement, yet from the painstaking non-stop ability within the truth-telling of the lines."
--David Ferry, writer of Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, winner of the nationwide ebook Award for Poetry
Jeffrey Galbraith is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton collage, Illinois. He earned his doctorate in English Literature from Indiana college, and his MA in artistic Writing from Boston college. His poetry has seemed in Southern Humanities evaluate, Florida overview, RHINO, Yemassee, and the Cresset.
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