If momentum, as Terry Hermsen writes in his new book, is “a matter of degree,” then what he measures with an exacting eye is the direction, quality, and meaning of the motion of moving bodies, his own and others, in their daily course around the sun. A House for Last Year’s Summer shows his uncanny ability to discern eternal verities in the quotidian, and his mastery of colloquial speech makes each line ring with authenticity. In riddles and prose poems, homages to artists and places here and abroad, elegies and interludes, poet Hermsen finds a local habitation for what propels him through the world: love. This is a lovely book. –Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood Terry Hermsen’s new poems travel–from Ohio prairie to the Strait of Magellan, from galleries of art to the earth’s “museum of eternity down the spine of the Andes,” through loneliness and loss to deeper capacities for love. And everywhere they go, they bring an observant heart, a bold imagination, and the exacting, expansive voice of a poet in his full power. “If I could I would lie deep inside the morning/as if it were a sea.// Each day the smallest ripple,” writes Hermsen. Then in poem after exquisite poem, he shows us how this radiant work is done. –Lynn Powell, author of Season of the Second Thought

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A House for Last Year’s Summer: Poems (Harmony Poetry)
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