A Bountiful Silence: & Other Poems

John Muro's recent collection, A Bountiful Silence & Other Poems, captivates the reader with its lyrical expressions and odes to nature. Muro employs a tight economy of language in every line, allowing sensory imagery to dazzle evocatively on the page, with lines like "the rupture of fragrance from / each swollen blossom that astonishes / and agitates the soul" in his poem titled "Becoming," and in "Something More Than Winter (Weighs Upon Me)" he offers a stunning visual, "leaves of Klimt ...