The Descent : Poems

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Summary: Documents her unmistakable voice and literary talent
Review: Sophie Cabot Black is an award-winning poet whose lyrical verse and revelatory images evoke and highlight doubt, loss, survival, and spiritual resilience. The Descent is her second published collection and continues to document her unmistakable voice and literary talent. Lost: I am still here between the sun/That rises and the one that sets. To remain/Or go on. Which means to talk,//To remember wind, words for what happened,/How I could no longer figure you/From trees. And a turning of weather so quiet//I grew ashamed. I should have stayed with the horse/Huddled under ledge, but to go back now/Means to come upon myself. To be lost//Is to keep arriving. And so a trail becomes/All trails, perhaps a way out. Which is to say already/I am moving toward voices, each bend of the road//Made worse by knowing what I tell them/Will be different than what I've told myself.