The Lost Seventh Author:Steve Wilson "The figure who moves through these poems is a wanderer, a 'dark watcher' and a listener - to river, woods, ocean, and above all language itself. The poems take place where shadow meets substance and words compact as they break on the rocky shore. Readers who slow themselves sufficiently to hear their fine-tuned music will find themselves travel... more »ing with the poet 'along the edge of what / we give ourselves // to see.'" --Lee Sharkey, Poetry Editor, *Beloit Poetry Journal* "Steve Wilson's poems are always close to the bone. Not only are they so lean in language and form as to make you ache, but they also move you to contemplate being and mortality, love and loss, courage and despair, joy and grief in images of earth, water, wind, light, and dark that affirm the elemental unity of nature with the human soul and body that yearn ceaselessly after meaning and fulfillment." --Stephen Meats, Poetry Editor, *The Midwest Quarterly* "The poems of Steve Wilson, like an exquisite landscape at dawn, or a walk outside after too many days indoors, bear a breathtaking, transporting, luminous power. They hint, they nudge, with granite grace and delicate discretion mysteriously twined. How does he do it? Read them." --Naomi Shihab Nye« less