The Reaches

Steve Wilson’s The Reaches is a shimmering collection of poems that combines clear-minded observations with eco-charged, lyrical, zen-like bursts of contemplations that glow and dissipate in an instant. Wilson’s attention to the quiet particulars, along with his ability to generate great swaths of “articulated trams” that burrow across the page and across the mind’s landscape, is the rarest gift any poet could offer his or her reader. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book right now, read it, and then pass it along to anyone in need of a heaping dose of light.

—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of All They Will Call You

Steve Wilson has arrived at a moment of full ripeness in his new collection, The Reaches. He fills the reader with an intimate appreciation of life. Words reckon with the world’s possessions, the eyes of presence, the final fate of language, and loss. It makes for a poetry of ready response, which the poet has learned in conversation with stillness.

—Maxine Chernoff, author of Camera