The Valley of Cranes

Phillip Foss”s seventh full-length book of poetry, The Valley of Cranes, excavates a wordscape at once archaic and prophetic, imagined and lived, originating in the poet”s homeground New Mexico. “A meditational tone steeped in quirk and particularity marks The Valley of Cranes. Anything could be something else in this book that abounds in unpredictable declaration. Sensuous and astringent both, Phillip Foss”s poems offer pause, gleam, glint, edification—repeated yield of angular prospect and purchase.” —Nathaniel Mackey “The distillate dearticulation of hush gathering into transparency. Phillip Foss’s The Valley of Craneshas the majestic poise of the world just beyond ours. ‘Which is light.’” — Charles Bernstein