Star in the Eye

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, JAMES SHEA is currently a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools and teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University. Star in the Eye is his first book.

"With a simplicity of phrasing, directness of address, and nimble first-mindedness, the poems in Star in the Eye convey great depth, zest, and mystery. Their brevity is anathema to fragmentation; instead playfully and mordantly, they honor "what will suffice," as Stevens says, with a calligraphic precision and flair. If anyone could cut a diamond with a paintbrush, it would be James Shea - his work is so marvelous; utterly lucent and revivifyingly strange." - Dean Young"