Eye (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781959556800)

Using "eye" instead of "I" is a way to hold the self loosely, to slip out of its insistence and let observations rise without, as Keats says, any irritable grasping. Bove writes with a quiet grace, whether he is speaking of childhood grief over a mother's drinking, or the sudden rapture of stepping out into the swirl of snow.