Tablature

From the "rubble [that] is the order of the day" in the opening poem to the longing for a "radiant happy ending" in the book''s final line, Tablature is a book of poems that traverses a great swath of the heart''s experience in compelling and lucid poetic language. Bruce Whiteman''s first book of poems in traditional lined form in thirty years is by turns learned and allusive, and emotionally expr...