​​“The titular poem is a heartrending…harrowing… suffused with Altman's imaginative power. The sound and sense of these poems conjoin beautifully.”

       –William Wright, Author of Grass Chapels: New & Selected Poems


David R. Altman

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Sample selected poems from David R. Altman: