Essay On Air
Reg Saner
 

Reg Saner's first book, Climbing Into the Roots,won the Walt Whitman Award (1976). His second book, So This Is the Map,was selected by Derek Walcott as the winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition (1981).

Essay On Airis an important new book by a poet Peter Stitt has called one of our most important originals.

Saner's is not an easy optimism, it's a courage that comes from facing up to grief and loss, from stepping out of the self and acknowledging the othernessof the world.   -- Susan Wood, Houston Chronicle

It is the struggle between what he knows and feels, between reason and emotion, that makes Saner's work so rich. . . . At his best, Saner seems to speak from a depth beyond emotion and reasonóa third place, where desire and logic no longer struggle, and grace enters. Not simple felicity, but grace in the old sense.   --Joe Hutchison, The Bloomsbury Review
 

        Anasazi, the First Coloradans
 

They knew next to nothing about the sky
while counting on it for everything.

What a wonderful time that must have been-
to see the sun down, not a twilight clue
where it goes as it vanishes
or why.

And then they cleared out,
leaving behind lots of strange names
and all this furniture.

102 pages
Out-of-Print: Contact author at saner@stripe.colorado.edu for more information
Ohio Review Books Contemporary Poetry Series
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