The Steel Veil
Jack Marshall

Poetry:
“Marshall’s canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend everything from string beans to string theory.”

Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being, while “riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme,” Marshall’s distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.

Also Available by this Author:

• Baghdad to Brooklyn
• Gorgeous Chaos: New and Selected Poems 1965-2001
• Millennium Fever
• Sesame
• Arabian Nights