Midwest Book Review
Poetry is a music of the soul, an art of the mind brought out into the world through the medium of the written and the spoken word. Poetry can move the heart, invoke the memory, inspire the imagination, inflame the emotions, bring ease to the troubled, and rest to the weary. Brooke Horvath's anthology of his poetry as contained within the pages of Consolation At Ground Zero is an outstanding example of the poem as literature and the poem as a testament to the human spirit, experience, and imagination. Consolation At Ground Zero will reward its readers with poems that have been crafted by one who is a master of language and the verbal music of human communication.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Many poems in this first collection by a poet who has found keen readers in a wide range of literary journals, anthologies, chapbooks, etc. have the tight-knit structure and emotional impact of the best short fictions; their elegaic rhythms and figurative daring lift them to poetry's highest levels. Brooke Horvath imbues even the most mundane scenes and objects - backyards, movie theaters, family snapshots, a lifted spoon, and a garden's zinnias, bush-beans, weeds - with mythic dimensions, the classic pathos of the spirit's endurance in our tragic world. His poetic gifts are amply supported by the scholarship and critical sense that place him in the tradition of E. A. Robinson, Allen Tate, Anthony Hecht, and Richard Howard.

FROM THE CRITICS

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