An Affair In The Valley

AN AFFAIR IN THE VALLEY is passionate poetry about openings- opening the door to home, to the greatness of life, to love and its companions- joy and gratitude. These poems have been scraped off the wall of Steve Jackson s everyday life and carefully sifted through an exquisite prism of awareness. He sees the light because he s seen and felt the darkness- lived for months out of his pickup and heard a 100 silent doors slam behind him. But there is no bitterness here. His poems are an accessible, glowing testament of a conscientious witness with an uncanny knack for isolating precise words and the exact inflection of a moment- which he freezes into language that allows readers to extract the poem s purest essence. If Dante s Inferno is a guided descent into the hideous abyss, then AN AFFAIR IN THE VALLEY is the reverse- an ascendance into light and the lightness of being- an affirmation that This is your home- the universe-/ the universe loves you.