The day after M.A. Schorr begins to write about an ancient inn at Fukushima reduced to fragments by the recent tsunami, disaster struck closer to home in the form of a rare heart condition known as... More > an aortic dissection. Healing from surgery inside “the deep mask of sleep” the dreaming and imagining of these renga has further aided his recovery< Less
Sonnets with a special collection of dream songs recently added. Reviewers have commented on
"Wonderful humor" , "interplay of mind and memory", and "love and loss, cities... More > and families, memory and forgetting" in this Frostian ladder of poems. Mark Schorr is the Executive Director of the Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence, Mass, and teaches at Cambridge College.< Less
These two collectoins of renga describe M.A. Schorr's recovery from a serious heart condition and return to visit to his native Chicago. It contains a number of woodcuts by the author.