Soft Box Poems Author:Celia Bland Celia Blands poetry has some of the vivid characterization and the black humor of contemporary novels, but her spare music insists upon the lyrical epiphanies of the instant; those small lonesome moments of understanding. One could say that she creates out of the ordinary, out of the everyday tragedies and comedies, a poetry that links our... more » daily routines to the archaic past. Hers are the verses of the bedroom, the changing table and the kitchen table, the poetry of what can never be said, and what must be said. "We need poems such as these," wrote Annie Wright, "to jolt us, to look at our own lives more carefully and, for some, to know that one is not alone in the world..." read« less