"Study"
from Michael White's
Re-entry

Michael White:

Michael White's poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry. He was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Utah, and has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he lives. (Photo by William Fridrich)

About Re-entry:

Michael White's poetry is unusual for its loving patience in imagining what human predicaments feel like. Using a striking variety of measures, his cadenced meditations attempt over and over again to re-enact, in some faithful fashion, the grain of consciousness as it plays out, from crisis to celebration, elegy to simple joy. White's new work is plainer and more prayerful than ever before.

"Michael White's Re-entry throws the door wide open onto a world that is fiercely observed and fearlessly, even obsessively, rendered. Here is a book that explores the interplay between interior and exterior landscapes with such generous and beautifully crafted detail that readers will feel they are no longer reading these poems but living them."
— Kathryn Stripling Byer

"Michael White's third volume does what all good poetry does: it presents the sun-drenched quotidiana of our lives, and lifts it all into the sacred space of poetry and memory. He delights us with his naming, but he also makes us pause, long enough at least to take very careful stock of what we have. He makes us want to hold on to it, even as it trembles in the ether and dissolves."
— Paul Mariani

"In Michael White's latest opus, figure after figure emerge from the chaotic ground of memory, such verdant upswellings an urgent music pressured up from deep wells before subsiding, high waterlines left in our wake to mark the turbulence of love's intractable flood."
— Timothy Liu

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