Clearing the Stream: New & Selected Poems 1975-2025

Clearing the Stream gathers fifty years of Dennis Maloney's poems into a single collection-a sustained record of one poet's attention to the world. He writes with equal care about a calligrapher's brush and the catastrophes of war, about snowfall and legacy, about remaining awake to beauty without turning away from harm. Rather than circling a single autobiographical self, these poems open into something more spacious: a way of being in the world that readers are invited to share.

"Clearing ...