Leaf Called Socrates

The interplay of the written word and the painted image converge in Ann Holmes skillfully crafted poetry. Holmes gets inside the action of a poem, imagining what it is like to be the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, a goat in Greece, spring beginning, acloud refusing to change its form. Love, loss, wonder, and the quirkiness of life leap off the page.

How rich a palette, poet-artist Ann Holmes brings to h...