Straight Ahead Author:Clare Shaw These poems capture intimacy, loss, fragmentation, and delight through poems that follow the trajectory of life through childhood, breakdown and love. ...'Straight Ahead' is a collection of poetry depicting loss, closeness, collapse, and delight- all the aspects of being alive, including the inevitability of decay. The free verse celebrates... more » evocative patterns of sound and rhythm, and the subjects consider both the cruel and wonderful sides of living. An evocative, emotionally resonating collection."" --The Midwest Book Review« less