Noah’s Ark

These remarkable poems are windows into that most difficult of questions – how to live in a fallen world. The glowing transparency of their language and the stunning clarity of their wisdom allow us to see the human heart stripped bare.

—Jennifer Barber, author of Given Away and Rigging the Wind

Sam Magavern opens quick portals in "Noah's Ark" for morning visions and wisdoms: reports and chants from dark and funny parts of the mind. Here are sudden pictures of durable wonder. Read quickly and all at once. And breathe in Monica Angle's long now, a broadly painted calligraphy that stitches the poems into the book and keeps it afloat, a watercolor time and life line that locates the enduring horizon. Not often do image and word float together like this – making so well such unspeakable sense together.

—Anthony Bannon, executive director, Burchfield Penney Art Center