The Sky Between Us - Softcover

Irene Latham is an award-winning poet and novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. Her passion for poetry started as soon as she could read and write, with Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends. and love poems she crafted for her mother. Named Alabama State Poetry Society s 2006 Poet of the Year, Irene has served as poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal since 2003. This is her third volume of poetry.

Irene Latham s new book of poems THE SKY BETWEEN US alternates between surreal and loving actuality. She blends the daily world with a soaring flight of fantasy, and then gently lands us back in reality. --Andrew Glaze, Poet Laureate of Alabama

In her third collection of poems, The Sky Between Us (Blue Rooster Press, 2014), Alabama author Irene Latham marries her appreciation for the natural world with an examination of love, relationships, and interior lives. Inspired by images from the National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection, this slim volume of verse carries substantial weight in the questions it poses: What tune should we choose to soothe a galaxy of uncharted fears? The collection carries comparable heft in the truths it reveals: We always arrive somewhere, whether we have the courage to name it, or not. Whether the scene is an ocean, a mountain summit, a distant planet or simply home, Latham is a bold and dedicated explorer, adeptly observing beauty, wondering at mysteries and pausing to discover emotional truths. --The Murfreesboro Pulse