Asbestos Brocade

Furthers this poet's fascination with nature and the elements: how human action has frayed our bond with the world. Countering such a grave loss are the forces of wonder to be found in human language, in family, in empathy, and in mortality itself. Naturally, human desire for the one true love (and the many) plays a key role in healing all that might be broken. A. E. Stringer is the author of three collections of poems and his work has appeared in such journals as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah. For 24 years, he taught writing and literature at Marshall University in West Virginia.