The Light in Your Eyes

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Lisa Cassman
Paperback, 86 pp., $12.95

Lifetimes later, after the years had parted them, grown them up, gotten them married to other people, started them respective families, brought them through difficult broken marriages, they reconnected. Now, happily married to one another, these poems, written across the past thirty years.

They met for the first time as guileless teenagers at a summer camp. She never forgot the light in his eyes… Lifetimes later, after the years had parted them, grown them up, gotten them married to other people, started them respective families, brought them through difficult broken marriages, they reconnected. Now, happily married to one another, these poems, written across the past thirty years, document Lisa’s journey into what love means, as Steve showed her, starting when they were hopeful teens. Theirs is a love story of novels, plays, and poetry. And these are the poems born of it.