The Frozen Sea Within Us

Title: The Frozen Sea Within Us: New and Selected Poems 1983-2023Author: Jonathan HarringtonSoftcover  $22.00Published by Beltway EditionsSeptember 1, 2023 224 Pages ISBN 978-1-957372-04-4What a pleasure to have a selected poems by Jonathan Harrington. Truth-telling, passionate, plainspoken, awestruck, The Frozen Sea Within Us moves through forty years of work that relishes unreconciled contradictions. Drifting from visionary to poignant longing to surreality (bicycles falling from the sky!). I kept thinking of Mahmoud Darwish’s words: “Extreme clarity is a mystery.” This is the clear voice of an honest friend with urgent news. A dazzling collection. —John Wall Barger, author of Smog Mother"This overdue volume charts the remarkable career of an unmistakable voice in American poetry. Harrington's range—embracing the South, New York and Mexico, as well as interior landscapes of a re-imagined gospel in today's Middle East—is rare and impressive. Deeply felt, sometimes harrowing, sometimes