Scarlet Tanager Books publishes poetry, fiction,
literary criticism, and literary history by West Coast authors.
“The poems in The Sky Will Overtake You abound in a rare, infectious, and hard-won ecstasy, the consequence—at least in part—of exquisite attention to whatever they approach. They celebrate ‘the days laid out like jewels / on a merchant’s table’ even as they acknowledge grief and loss and the knowledge that ‘[There is] no keeping anything.’ These poems make ephemerality palpable, establishing it as an essential feature of what we treasure. ‘What Do You Have?’ asks a poem’s title. Its final lines respond, ‘Only this bit of time, / like clouds unforming— / even as you point to it, // gone.’”
— Jacqueline Osherow, author of Divine Ratios
Edited by Jack Foley
Edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan
Edited by Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day
