AN AFFAIR IN THE VALLEY is passionate poetry about openings- opening the door to home, to the greatness of life, to love and its companions- joy and gratitude. These poems have been scraped off the wall of Steve Jackson's everyday life and carefully sifted through an exquisite prism of awareness. He sees the light because he's seen and felt the darkness- lived for months out of his pickup and heard a 100 silent doors slam behind him. But there is no bitterness here. His poems are an accessible, glowing testament of a conscientious witness with an uncanny knack for isolating precise words and the exact inflection of a moment- which he freezes into language that allows readers to extract the poem's purest essence. If Dante's Inferno is a guided descent into the hideous abyss, then AN AFFAIR IN THE VALLEY is the reverse- an ascendance into light and the lightness of being- an affirmation that "This is your home- the universe-/ the universe loves you."

Author Biography

Steve Jackson is an internationally published poet. His poems have appeared in The Salmon(Ireland), the California State Quarterly and a multitude of literary magazines. His first volume of poems, Wade in the Water, was published by the Los Angeles Poets' Press founded by Richard Weekley and devoted to bringing buried works to the light, to the surface of the earth, and to the hearts of the receptive.