Between the Islands by Philip Gross Sohini Basak Cynthia Miller

Cynthia Miller

Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion

in Zurich meanwhile

its fears and hopes

we’ll be dead soon / enough what’s the rush

Between the Islands by Philip Gross Sohini Basak Cynthia MillerThe two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped. This is Philip Grosss writing at its most hospitable, lit up by a sense of personal address, both tactful and deeply engaged. The sea that is always in sight, between us and beyond us, is more than a metaphor. It is another