Shadow

by Roger Weingarten

Roger Weingarten s sixth book, Shadow Shadow, is a rare achievement by a powerful poet. Weingarten writes with a dark and wry humor, and his voice, fine and masterful, inspires as it surprises and startles. Shadow Shadow shows life lived at the edge of meaning, drawing transcendence from the darkness, the shade of the extraordinary at the edge of the ordinary. In Shadow Shadow memories of family and growing up revolve and collide with the very tangible present in bold violence that sends out precious spikes of pure emotion and precise truth. Weingarten s vibrant, strong verse deftly shapes moments of ordinary life a letter received, an old tombstone visited, a night s bad dream and then remolds these familiarities with an undeniable craft and a relentless eye for the affirmations of life that only accomplished art can provide.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1986