Yellowrass (Paperback)

n Yellowgrass by Allan Safarik we see a new direction from the author of the award-winning When Light Falls From The Sun (Hagios, 2005). While the themes of prairie landscape and people are present there is also a spare and relentless quality to the work that makes these poems both powerful and haunting. Anyone who has read Safarik will know that he engages readers with his acerbic humour, his forthright honesty and his take-no-prisioners approach to poetic language. With the blinders off, this is poetic vision from a poet who understands an uncompromizing picture of the human, and animal, experience.