Sightlines

by Megan Bohigian

Sightlines is a book that seeks to find the center in a world filled with the noise and stuff of life – sadness and grief, rough travel and rough weather, the angers and failed plans that we are all confronted with. The poems here do not flinch from these things, nor do they dwell on them. What these poems do is place all these distractions in a larger framework, grounded in compassion and light and attention to detail. Megan Bohigian reminds us of the small, important things, and her poems are filled with the sound of wind, the voices of birds, and the forgiveness at the heart of love. John Bellinger, Editor, The Comstock Review “In all this/ chat and clatter,” says the speaker, “I just want to free this one small moth.” This is a powerful and relentless book–filled with joy and deep sorrow and rising to moments of ecstatic wonder at the complicated world we are immersed in. Megan Bohigian’s poems offer an inclusive and closely examined world, reminiscent of Whitman, where dust and ashes are as important as water and blossoms, where grief and loss are regular inhabitants rather than occasional visitors to be recovered from. She never flinches from the darkness, but still manages to give us hope that we might position ourselves, however briefly, “on the soft side of earth’s rough arm.” This is a gorgeous, lyrical collection, and it tells the truth. Corrinne Clegg Hales, Poet, Author of To Make it Right

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2013