The Word for Everything

by Roger Mitchell

Price 56 pages, $10.95

ISBN 1-886157-06-5

It's this unsentimental goodness in the work that most moves me. And how each poem turns and turns again, making its way by slow surprise. --Marianne Boruch

Many poets write about memory, but few manage to track the actual motions of the mind as it roams across the past. In The Word for Everything, Roger Mitchell delineates that fine line between the thing remembered and the mechanics of remembering. The poems are poignant and intimate, but they're also wonderfully brainy. Their self-scrutiny keeps them tough and lean. --Chase Twichell

Mitchell is the author of four other books of poetry, including Adirondack, also published by BkMk Press. His book of non-fiction, Clear Pond: The Reconstruction of a Life, won the John Ben Snow Award.