Steady Daylight Edward Pillar understandings

understandings

and twenty-first century

and its fate in the hands of succeeding generations

the coherence of national culture has been challenged by the expansion of - and attacks on - individual and group rights

no president can govern without an enormous White House staff

Steady Daylight Edward Pillar understandingsSteady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the "old" East Liberty have evanesced, Bathanti invents a world ample enough for the dead and the living through incantatory