Children with Enemies

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience with a keen awareness of our desperate need to overcome dread with a pearl of reluctant wisdom. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, comic and remorseful, this book comes alive to the confusions and implications behind what it means to be human.