An Alchemy in the Bones: Poems

by William Reichard

‘It’s about what can be bent,’ William Reichard writes in a poem called ‘Bonsai.’ These poems, too, are about the ways we’re bent by by loss and by desire, by love and difficulty. William Reichard’s poems are beautifully open to the ‘bent’ in all its the not-straight, the damaged, the curves the world throws us. These delicately etched lyrics are attentive to what Reichard calls ‘the intricacy of emotion;’ it doesn’t surprise, then, that this poet has a particular gift for the love poem, for the text of tenderness, the body’s ‘dazzling code.’"—Mark Doty, author of Heaven’s A Memoir

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Peggy Heitmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the words of William Reichard!!! His poetry sings to me. Reichqrd says in his poem "A Measure," that "It startles me the intricacy of emotion," and I think that is what this author captures so well throughout the book. My favorite poem is "Northern Light." What is yours?