The poems in Mario Chard's first collection follow three entangled strands--a contemporary immigrant story, echoes of the Fall in John Milton's /Paradise Lost/, and meditations on fatherhood in the shadow of Abraham's command to sacrifice a son.--
“Power of language — stirred and replenished. Mario Chard writes spare, dynamic poems of muscular strength and deeply moving witness. ‘We think worry is a robe / we can outgrow.’ In this potent world of mixed landscapes and generations, his voice explores what we can and cannot know with elegant grace.”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
