The poems in Anne Bower's The Space Between Us offer a world in which the space that we and the objects we live with is dynamic, accepting us as well as pushing back at us. With a painter's eye for color and form, an engineer's sense of process, and a tai chi expert's command of muscle and mind, Bower shows readers the complexity of self in the vanishing moments that art preserves for a while. The reader fi ...Full description
The poems in Anne Bower's The Space Between Us offer a world in which the space that we and the objects we live with is dynamic, accepting us as well as pushing back at us. With a painter's eye for color and form, an engineer's sense of process, and a tai chi expert's command of muscle and mind, Bower shows readers the complexity of self in the vanishing moments that art preserves for a while. The reader finds herself caught up in the circling flux of "light's sheen on apples" and rides the poems' musical currents with the "slow intensity" of a pas de deux.Susan Shaw Sailer, The God of RoundaboutsIn The Space Between Us Anne Bower observes in quiet measured moments hands, house, heart "breathing each...over and over," each moment a noticing, an opening, an embracing. Bower moves with grace... stretching, flexing to shape "the air around and within us," showing that space is not empty but our "force frame support."Pamela Ahlen, Gather Every Little Thing