ReviewLike Dickinson, Ted Eisenberg dwells in possibility, and his poems, oftenriddle-like and condensed to their essences, conjure her surprising leaps andgood strangeness. As they elegantly shed the excesses of our contemporarydiscourse, these poems, paradoxically, also luxuriate in the sounds andnuances of the very words they so carefully distill. This is thus poetry of highskill and high stakes.--Jeanne Marie BeaumontTed Eisenberg's poems tether vastly different ways of seeing the world--scientifi c, spiritual, personal, historical--reading often as not as prayerfi ltered through the lens of dreamscape, in which fi nitude is the leading man.This is the work of a fully mature, transformative imagination, attuned to thedetails and anguish of the physical world, while seeking realms beyond thevisible, beyond what can be said but is well worth trying to say, in languageattuned to and re-mastering a strange, unutterable music onto the page, where"A shingle of bark stirs, then leaps, this autumn jazz."--Jeffrey LevineAbout the AuthorTheodore Eisenberg's life as a poet began at age four, learning to recite Kipling's The Ballad of East and West, as his father read from the bathtub. After college at Cornell, he veered toward the pragmatic, attending Georgetown Law. His legal career blossomed into more than anticipated, as he became managing partner of Grotta, Glassman and Hoffman, a labor law firm in New Jersey, which ultimately merged with a national firm, Fox Rothschild LLP. Along the way, he undertook leadership positions in the environmental movement and within the Jewish community. More importantly, he married Karen, his wife of forty years, and had four children, followed by five grandchildren and counting. In 2014, he retired from the practice of law, after 38 years, to return to poetry-the unrealized aspiration of his childhood. His poems have appeared, or will appear, in The Listening Eye, Midstream, Jewish Currents, The Aurorean, Podium, Poetica, Thema, Rattle, Halfway Down the Stairs, Slipstream Press, Crosswinds Press and The Ragged Sky Anthology. This is the first book arising from that first inkling.