cover image Invisible Bride: Poems

Invisible Bride: Poems

Tony Tost. Louisiana State University Press, $24.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-8071-2964-7

Winner of the 2003 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Invisible Bride, by Chapel Hill, N.C.-based poet Tony Tost, starts with the fact that ""The man's Vision begins with the child's Sob"" (""There is no temptation to call this another form of surrender"") and passes through myriad prose blocks loaded with information, prayer, diaristic narrative, obsessive footstep-counting, a ""swan costume"" and other lenses for glimpsing an ethereal other.