Axis Mundi

Poetry. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Lorna Dee Cervantes. AXIS MUNDI explores how human perception can reveal the elegant within the ordinary as well as in such extraordinary challenges as 9/11 and personal/marital disaster. These poems demonstrate how attentiveness to the world outside the self can restore wholeness. They meditate on the ways that, for all living beings, home is continuously imperiled and yet miraculously endures. The poems together develop a larger theme of equilibrium between the earth, its parts, and the wider universe.