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May 04, 2006 07:30 PM
THOMAS ASLIN
Sweet Smoke is the title of Thomas Aslin's chapbook, just published by
Red Wing Press, a title that is particularly apt for these attentive poems
that honor and mourn the transitory world. Their gentleness and care let
what might be quiet, hidden, or difficult be heard, seen, and felt. Though
their settings are the stuff of daily life -- an uncle fishing, a friend
fixing an evening meal, an aging father raking leaves -- they evoke and
address large topics -- death, love, and forgiveness. Where we find pain,
these poems suggest, we may also find solace: "If the air, cooler now as it
passes through / the window screens, is not a blessing then what is?"
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