Advance Praise for The Grove Behind:
“The poetry of witness is, in Andrea Scarpino’s hands, also the poetry of a learned citizen: these are poems of the haunted mind in which the public and private self must, against all the odds, achieve a democratic voice. This chapbook is a record in verse of the best words in the best order.”
--Stephen Kuusisto
“There’s a smudge in the air, on the body, and in the language of a people that memory left, and it is that indelible smudge that Scarpino clings to. She writes her way into that darkening of the landscape until we feel what’s left. These poems are written with a fierce need to see things as they really are, the language precise and elegant as hands moving on the piano. Scarpino is a poet who we will be reading for decades to come.”
--Kate Gale
Here I am signing author copies at AWP!