Poet Roger Mitchell rediscovers his roots when he returns to his home in the Saranac Lake region of New York and delves into the life of a nineteenth-century Adirondack millwright
“We want a book—be it a work of fiction or poetry—to remind us how varied and complex our experience of the world can be at times. And yet when we encounter such a book, we realize how rarely we come
Poetry. "Roger Mitchell's poems are superbly crafted--and at the same time always open to surprise and serendipity. The poems may begin in unassuming observation, but their ultimate aim is the clarity
In Half/Mask, Roger Mitchell goes in search of the magic that remains when the world is stripped down to ""an inhospitable beauty."" Many of these starkly lyrical poems explore the human and natural c
This book explores how positive interventions might be made into post-secular political spaces that have emerged in the wake of the economic, political and social upheavals of the 2008 global financia
