The Paper Rose - Paperback

by Tom Absher (Author)

This carefully organized collection leads the reader via poems closely linked by theme, subject, attitude, and metaphor into a gripping, moving, masterfully assembled, deeply meaningful and satisfying story. One poem says, "Sadness, remember the sadness/in the world, in other people." It's what The Paper Rose does; it remembers. This book is a sacred mass sung in the presence of sadness.
David Budbill