Having Witnessed the Illusion New Release True mind-beauty

True mind-beauty

And she reimagines the figures of Greek and Hebrew legend-the Gorgon who begs for "the gift of monstrosity

alternately burning and melting over the glowing (and majestic) fires of our lives

” He allows us to tramp alongside him through this “beggared Eden

luminous last poem closes the collection with a reminder that "There is much to love in this world

Having Witnessed the Illusion New Release True mind-beautyEach poem in Nicole Greaves' superb Having Witnessed the Illusion is a miracle of metaphor. Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers. Or are they simply the deep realities of an inner world we, her readers, are privileged to enter because Greaves' work encourages us to live at greater depths? The acts of the imagination in Having Witnessed the Illusion are brilliant, at once fierce and strangely comforting. Behind their