Company of Moths

Author: Michael Palmer

Publisher: New Directions (2005)

Michael Palmer has been acclaimed “exemplarily radical” (John Ashbery) and “one of America’s most important poets… startlingly lyrical and visceral” (The Harvard Review). His book Company of Moths—a collection in four parts, “Stone,” “Scale,” “Company of Moths,” and “Dream”—is beautiful and fierce: “bright archive, sad merriment,” “question pursuing question.” Palmer in our dark times asks, “How will you now read in the dark?”