<strong>Space Walk</strong> blasts off into realms of experience that show the imaginationslimitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the... » 

Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imaginationslimitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the poems inthis daring collection confront headon our current American realities ofempire state violence the endless crisis chatter of talking heads and theeerie weightless feeling of catastrophe they are tethered to thegravitational pull of love and hope.In Sleighs poems rocket engines and pancake houses space stations and momskitchen terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part of lovesgalactic amplitude. Hailing Tom Sleighs work the Los Angeles Times haswritten that he stakes a claim on the planet of the imagination. In The NewYorkers words he asserts the importance of poetry itself showing us inSpace Walk its restorative recuperative powers. «