Mouth Like Straw, The Hand Half-Blind

In this collection of personal, verse dedications, Eliot Cardinaux’s writing is by turns abstract and detailed, concrete in its discretion. Some of these poems are meant to wind up, leaving a blow felt long after the poet is done speaking, while retaining a sense of depth within the realm of silence.

“Galileo,” a dedication to the violist Mat Maneri, from Eliot Cardinaux’s chapbook Mouth Like Straw, The Hand Half-Blind