Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson Philip Gross Laina's poems carve symbolically rich

Laina's poems carve symbolically rich images drawn from mythology and the natural world

A new book from a poet whose work is “wild with imagination

I’m totally killing your vibes is a book of poems concerning the exuberant performance

language and business is there in the substance of the poem

He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2016 and won the 2017 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Opened Field’

Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson Philip Gross Laina's poems carve symbolically richPassionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics, including Rabia of Basra, John Donne and Simone Weil. Two Rivers Press