Having Witnessed the Illusion New Release but it is also

but it is also

This special "Silk and Spice" anthology issue features fourty-four poets from around the world

making her way word by word across the chasm where hope can fall prey to heartbreak

luminous last poem closes the collection with a reminder that "There is much to love in this world

Having Witnessed the Illusion New Release but it is alsoEach poem in Nicole Greaves' superb Having Witnessed the Illusion is a miracle of metaphor. Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers. Or are they simply the deep realities of an inner world we, her readers, are privileged to enter because Greaves' work encourages us to live at greater depths? The acts of the imagination in Having Witnessed the Illusion are brilliant, at once fierce and strangely comforting. Behind their