Coming Across: Poems and Lunch

In Coming Across, Linda Gail Francis celebrates the power of everyday encounters. In this collection, her poems illuminate the startling richness to be found in ordinary experience and imagination-the things we come across-and meetings between creatures and states. Here, we encounter a monk seal, a Confederate statue, passengers on an inner-city bus, a woman coming to terms with her life choices, and the elements of a salad facing their condition together, among many others. Throughout, we are invited to join the poet in opening, exploring, and realizing some truths about our world and all living things.