The poems in
Settling In
explore the difficulty of settling into things. Love, memory, life passages and more prove balky, spiky, slippery.
Yet the poems find grace in this effort to settle-in to the unsettling; hold mercy for the circumstance, as the collection's opening poem states, of being "Just a creature making my way."
Mark Belair's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including
Alabama Literary Review, Harvard Review,
and
Michigan Quarterly Review
. He is the author of seven previous collections of poems and two works of fiction:
Stonehaven
(Turning Point, 2020) and its sequel,
Edgewood
(Turning Point, 2022). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times, as well as for a Best of the Net Award.
Please visit www.markbelair.com