Heart on a String - by Tom Boswell (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The poems in Heart on a String feature acute observations and tender reflections. They explore the mysteries of love and the end of love, of life and mortality. With clear language and vivid images, Tom Boswell takes the reader on a poetic journey not soon to be forgotten.

Review Quotes

Tom Boswell's Heart on a String is a funny, tender, no-nonsense look at serious relationships that finally come to an end. These poems help us understand the connections and disconnections of love. And they help us, as all the best poems do, to see the familiar world less familiarly, see the "miracle in the mundane."

-Robert Cording, author of Walking with Ruskin

In Heart on a String, Tom Boswell shows himself to be a highly articulate translator of the natural world, and a perceptive narrator of his own journey down the decades...But perhaps most impressive of all are Boswell's moving personal stories of love and mortality, which simply do not lend themselves to paraphrase-but will take the reader's breath away.

-Marilyn L. Taylor, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Emeritus

Tom Boswell opens wide the spaces no one else even sees. His images astound and expand even as the lines are cast in your direction, and you are caught.

-Eric Paul Shaffer, author of Even Further West