Grammar of Passage details a German family's quiet lives as they are pulled into the gathering maelstrom of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Monika Cassel's attention to detail in this début, tempered with a deep empathy brings individual moments to vivid life, deftly demonstrates how poetry can excavate and reinvigorate history.
Monika Cassel's attention to detail in Grammar of Passage deftly demonstrates how poetry can excavate and reinvigorate history.
