Slow Air

Robin Robertson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $23 (80pp) ISBN 978-0-15-100746-2

""The beach is still bright./ The children I never had/ run to the edge"" in the harsh, melancholic Slow Air carved into precise eddies by Robin Robertson. Following up on the London poet's debut A Painted Field, these lyrics aim straight for ""the steady burning pilot/ light of fear behind the eyes.""

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