Frost Lights A Thin Flame Author:James Owens James Owens writes his observations, and what he observes is spectacular. He directs our attention with fantastic metaphor coupled with a kind of precision in language that brings the sounds and sights of his natural and mythological world to the reader's senses. As Bruce Smith notes: "[Owens'] arrangements and rhythms make not just poems but ex... more »periences. He makes us awake and alert to the grain and textures of things." The myth of these poems tranforms the real.« less