Andrew Frisardi
The title of Andrew Frisardi’s The Moon on Elba comes from one of its poems, a beautiful ghazal, striking in its graceful blend of form and intelligent feeling. The book’s opening poems include the Audenesque meditation 'Word' and a character poem, 'The Jeweler,' in which marvels are found, ironically, in the mundane. Frisardi writes of bedtime when we 'undress-rehearse for death.' He offers a Covid poem in Sapphics and a lovely ballade for 'That singing contradiction,' the late Timothy Murphy.
