The Star in the Branches by James Peake Manuel Vilas occasionally pout and perpetually wrestle

occasionally pout and perpetually wrestle with our fractured world

self-confident Chilean

and unpredictable in [its] concerns and procedures

in Antiquity and  beyond

Bearings sings of love too

The Star in the Branches by James Peake Manuel Vilas occasionally pout and perpetually wrestleThe Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end of the book are the disappearances of loved ones: a parent succumbing to dementia, and a school friend lost to more voluntary forms of forgetting. Elsewhere are poems of erotic love, big city