The Long Night of Flying

Poetry. In THE LONG NIGHT OF FLYING, Sharon Olson's engaging first collection, the reader is taken on a journey into a world of vulnerability, incipience, and mystery. There is a textured richness in the poet's tenaciously precise take on the world around us, whether its subject matter is the theft of a Vermeer, an indictment of the brutalities of war, or the loss of the poet's brother in the crash of a small plane. "Awash as we are in so much self-regard with its own closed world and banal speech, it's bracing, it's heartening to enter this gathering of true poems"--John Felstiner. "Read Sharon Olson's poems aloud to someone you love. Passionate, finely nuanced, and precise, these poems' surprising turns take you somewhere new"--Frances Mayes.