Flame in a Stable by Martin Edmunds

In his first collection in over 25 years, poet Martin Edmunds' Flame in a Stable is an alarmingly poignant and intelligent book of poems. Author of the National Poetry Series winning The High Road to Taos, Edmunds draws you in with each word like the chains of an anchor being lifted onto a boat. Mixing the sacred and the sinful in a knowing and playful way, come read and hear from yourself what poet Tom Sleigh calls the "textured and rebellious music of Martin Edmunds's Flame in a Stable.”

“Martin Edmunds as always loads every rift with ore. With its compelling cadence, with its command of dense diction, Edmunds’s language is a sensuous and sensible joy.”

— Donald Hall