Gravel in my Shoe

''The only peace: to know my place
And what I now must do,
Striding with the light full in my face,
And gravel in my shoe.''


Bright, elemental and as dexterously brilliant as ever, John Fuller''s latest collection takes as its subject ''our ends and our origins''. Here are songs, serenades, literary cameos, an ode to a golden anniversary, a long letter to an old friend, and two majestic sequences: one...