Egress,
Poems
by Naton Leslie
“We do what we
can,” says one of the speakers in Naton Leslie’s newest collections
of poetry, Egress. “I do
this for you, to keep it/from getting thin, the rive of rich/lightning
around me in farmlands/fanned out, unfeatured, a crudely healed wound.”
The people inhabiting these poems are constantly in search of healing,
of connections in an unfeatured world, any way they can. Egress is
Leslie’s richest and deepest collection yet.
Sample Poems by Naton Leslie
Naton Leslie is the author of three other volumes of poetry: Salvaged Maxims (Word Press, 2002), Moving
to Find Work (Bottom Dog Press, 2000) and Their
Shadows Are Dark Daughters (Pavement Saw Press, 1998) and a collection
of short stories, Marconi's Dream and Other
Stories (Texas Review Press), winner of the George Garrett Fiction
Prize. In 2000 he was awarded a grant from the New York State Council for
the Arts through the Saratoga County Arts Council, and in 1993 he received
a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry.
Praise for Naton Leslie’s Previous
Work
"These poems are highly polished: thougtful and rich. As with all philosophy,
they yearn to know more than is possible, but they forgive themselves over
and over in the sheer pleasure of salvaging and skillfully arranging what
is possible for us to know."--Fleda Brown
ISBN 1932339388, 112 pages, $17.00