Music from Behind a Stone Wall

＂Poems as music arise from the poet’s sixty years as a classical guitarist and his preoccupation with the tonalities of day-to-day life. Each poem in the book contributes to a multi-orchestrated symphony encompassing the delights and travails of family life and the moments of intimate connection with the animals and plants with which the poet comes into contact. At the core of the book are poems delving into the nearly impossible task to communicate the essence of a musical experience using the written word. It is a book of grief and joy sung with lyric acuity, imagistic surprise, and formal variation＂--

Steven Rood is a practicing trial lawyer and poet living in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of Naming the Wind, also published by Omnidawn. His poems have been published in Periodicities, Sporklet, Quarterly West, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Fugue, Lyric, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tar River Poetry, New Letters, Marlboro Review, Atlanta Review, Southern Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere.