Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur Andrés Sánchez Robayna was born

Andrés Sánchez Robayna was born in the Canary Islands in 1952

and a clarity which does not deny mystery but makes room for it

The excellent Naomi Shihab Nye perches on a staircase

And is a book that blends delight and loss

aware of the passing years

Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur Andrés Sánchez Robayna was bornFrom brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow, the poems in Ciaran Berrys third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere. His voice is by turns celebratory, elegiac, inquisitive and quietly humorous, as he conjures a past thats bric brac and hand me down. As these poems