Arriving Sideways

Rosalind Kaliden's chapbook Arriving Sideways elucidates the history of a mother and widow alongside a spiritual searching in a contemporary culture that ranges from concrete, to experimental and lyric approaches. The poems engage the worlds of science, art, nature and family life. There are sumacs that paint the hillside, tortoise framed glasses, a child with a mouthful of gravel and other observations that remind us of why poetry matters.