Synopsis
In his first book, Michael Cervas gives us a stunning array of poems that deftly combine the physical and metaphysical, ebullience and irony. Moving from his own past to meditations on seizing the moment and laments for the inhumanity of humanity, Cervas examines the human heart with unclouded vision and ends with a suite of love poems quite astonishing in their honesty and passion.
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Review
I feel haunted and deepened in all ways as a reader by this book. The poems are well-shaped, penetrating, insightful, unexpected, eerie and haunting at times, always resonant and richly layered. Their humor rings and delights. --Naomi Shihab Nye, author of You and Yours
Michael Cervas's Inside the Box is a joy to read. From his reflections on childhood to his Wordsworthian meditations on nature to his playful thoughts about the game of squash as a metaphor for life, these poems give pleasure and insight. They show us how to enjoy the ordinary and everyday, yet also how to reach beyond, "to imagine the exhilaration/ of breaking through to some/other boxless world." --Linda Peterson, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English, Yale University
These poems are a civilizing force! Michael Cervas's Inside the Box is the book I'd pick to tell what it felt like to be human and American at the beginning of the Twenty-first Century. From the precise instant of the death of the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow to "the universe's first lesson / in the consequences of desire," these deeply felt poems give us back our lives. --David Huddle, author of Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems
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