Bower Lodge by Paul J. Pastor


For all its intimations of quietude, there's a wildness in Pastor's poems- think Berryman's dreaming songs or Whitman's barbarian yawp-a rusticity that is as defiant as it is pastoral. This book is a plumage, not of butterfly or bird, but of moth wing, which is to say: a blessing.

Paul J. Pastor

Bower Lodge

Fernwood Press, 2021