Silk Weather

by Alan Naslund (1999)

In Silk Weather, Alan Naslund charms with his craft but terrifies with his honesty. His graceful, almost courtly love sonnets contrast so strikingly with his bleak, contemporary meditations on loss and failure and compromise-meditations that will echo deeply for readers past their youth-that there seem to be two different sensibilities at work. But no, there’s only one-a sensibility that powerfully unifies life experience and turns it into art.
-Richard Cecil