End of American Magic Simon Spillett Salah Niazi

Salah Niazi

Also Mansi songs from Western Siberia

for all who remember the author’s phrase “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden

sometimes resentful of the Church’s claims

where one pictures the speaker in all his curmudgeonly grumpy-old-man-ness glaring at the reader wondering what the hell they're laughing at

End of American Magic Simon Spillett Salah Niazi"The poems of Christopher Locke astound; every coal mine they lead you down eventually opens to a great and fragile light, both redemptive and heartbreaking. Yet his is a voice ultimately concerned with the remarkable possibilities found in ordinary human mercy." James Frey "With Christopher Locke's poems, acute powers of observation and a flair for original metaphors combine to render a vivid and credible world. Clarity, freshness and honest self