Deborah Ager

Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager, published by small press Cherry Grove Collections, is a collection that gives voice to the thoughts, the events, and the split seconds before tragedy that are only heard in silence. The silence is a voice, quick to speak and die out without stalking across the stage and declaring itself. Secrets are revealed in these poems, like the undiscovered joy “Deborah Sampson” (page 11) — a woman who enlisted as a man in the Army during the Revolutionary War — felt posing as a man and disappearing from her real self. Or in “The Moment Before the Moment” (page 19), where the narrator comes across the hidden beauty of a sunrise before the sun rises above the horizon. Each poem illuminates the in-between, the edge, the precipice before the collision of events or moments in time.

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