In a Time of No Song

This remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a crack beneath a door, then a riot of sensuous intensity as you open up to the beauty that lies between the folds of words, bursts of poetic energy that casts warm light over all shadows.   From the Introduction by A.F. Moritz   "What is this poetry like? There are not many precedents for it or bodies of work very similar to it in English…Bien's word hoard