Passable Man John Read Multi-directional traction plates bite into

Multi-directional traction plates bite into ice and snow

Packed with stories of activism

In fresh translations by classicist and farmer M

A rollicking read-aloud featuring a wide cast of characters coming to the school nurse for help with their hilariously dramatic bumps

Passable Man John Read Multi-directional traction plates bite intoRalph Culver's is a poetry of great precision, almost delicacy, and of subtle power, deployed in poems that dwell in the ordinary and bring with them a sense of the extraordinary; what lives between his lines is the shadow that haunts us all. In A Passable Man, he interrogates a life in five parts: I could not keep from turning to check, mid step, the footprints strung behind in the climbing snow (from Prelude). This is a life shadowed by loss and