Lampblack & Ash

[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsession-in particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert Desnos-Muench's identification with a true self beyond the self's known truth is startling.-from the introduction by Carol Muske-Dukes "Simone's poems have a confidence and sophistication of what I like to call intentionality. Also wit, grace, poise, and a relationship to writing beyond self-referential feeling."-Anne Waldman "Lush, sprouting, sensuous images line-by-line, adopting myth freely, Muench's poems are volatile explosives, circling beauty."-James Tate Simone Muench is poetry editor of ACM and is an assistant professor at Lewis University, as well as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.