Crone's Wines: Late Poems

The poems in Crone's Wines often unlock the memories at the fringes of consciousness, making them come alive, or reflect on the mysterious and unspoken, casting them into the realm of the familiar. With a mix of formal and free-verse poems, Crone's Wines is wide-ranging in style and scope: its many preoccupations include solitude, nature, family, love, even the lightheartedness of cat poems, and aging and death--as befits the "late poems" subtitle, informed by the poet's age. There is a sense of…