The Spaces Between Us - Tapa blanda

Poetry. "The last stanzas of Goldsmith's beautiful 'Finders Keepers' lay out her large achievement to discover and inhabit the 'radiance' whose light fills the 'dark thought', the spaces—of time? of mortality? of cosmic emptiness?—within and between us. This is the miracle poetry at its best can produce: the dark thought kept steadily in mind, its darkness illuminated without being blinded, without being sacrificed to light."—Irving Feldman

Ann Goldsmith is a graduate of Smith College and lives in Buffalo, NY. She won the Quarterly Review of Literature Prize for her first book, No One Is the Same Again, in 1999, and has been a winner in the St. Louis Poetry Center "Best Poem" contest and a finalist in the "Discover"/The Nation national competition. She has taught at several colleges in the Buffalo, NY, area and served as poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institution.