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In the aftermath of her husband's medical crisis and the brain surgery that followed, Jessica Dubey contemplates the possibility of a life without him, re-examines those early warning signs that something was terribly wrong, and walks side-by-side with her husband through "recovery's uncertain re-entry." Her poetry takes a heart-wrenching, yet unsentimental look at caregiving and trauma in this new reality as they leave their old life and sense of security behind. It is a story of love and resilience.

Despite its unassuming low-key title, On Sunday Afternoons is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of what we think of as the "ordinary" world. Ordinary yes, but extraordinary too in the near-haiku glimmer and glow with which the poet animates small corners of the natural world. In one poem "Local plovers call-/ and-answered/ from the power poles;" in another "night animals' voices rise cantabile falsetto/ in mock solemnity. She cranes her neck." (That Becker is also a musician-composer enriches his poetic brew.) On Sunday Afternoons also contains longer meditations rich in human-often familial-feeling, or poems that lean into more surreal animations, or revisit a remembered Brooklyn: "washed up on the shoals of the Gowanus." Lucid and musically realized, these poems emerge from what Becker calls "This center of imagining," a place in which the "bright sky" of his own imagination is at home.-Eamon Grennan"a gorgeous collection... thoughtful, affecting, and compelling...filled with poems that are beautifully crafted, imaginative, moving."-Jeffrey LevineOf "Fates," "[there's a] dense sensual feel of language [and its] frame is kept both various yet consistent. It's really a great size and shape, like they say-delightful!"-Robert Creeley¿

The poem, "Spiders," won honorable mention in the Triad Poetry Contest of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.These carefully crafted poems explore the margins of experience with family, relationships, and chronic illness-sometimes with dark humor or surreal imagery.

These poems were inspired by various visits to the Art Institute of Chicago in preparation for one of the Poetry Foundation's Pop Up Poetry events, a series of 30-minute lunchtime poetry readings marking the reopening of the museum's new Contemporary Collection.As defined by the Foundation, "An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the 'action' of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning."

A lyrical, meditative collection from an up-and-coming poet. With provoking imagery and analogies, Weber invites readers to consider what lies beneath the surface of their relationships and of themselves.