Description
“Traverse” is a book that seems to have all of Earth in mind, all its places and creatures, not as sentimental other but companions. Craft’s poems are certain, his language a landscape of its own—hard, pressured, and flecked like sedimentary rock—that occasionally upends the reader as a form of tectonics. The poems take the reader into them and explore life’s traversals—its changes, uncertainties, losses—as simultaneously exceptional and mundane. They seek, it seems, to reunite with Earth, burrowing in rather than away.
