Moving between lyric poems, intimate prose, and a performance text for four readers, Ben Estes's third collection of poems, Clear Air, traces the wavering outline of grace fed through the machines of an unstable world. With images balancing between ordinary and otherworldly—rain on a car's windshield, a cat at a window, a distant voice carried through darkness, or the shimmering of a distant planet, Estes's book explores the dusky edges where light and darkness break.
Ben Estes is a writer and visual artist who lives in Kingston, NY. He is the author of the poetry collections ABC Moonlight and Illustrated Games of Patience. He also has edited collections by Alfred Starr Hamilton, Charles Burchfield, John Cage, Karlheinz Wienberger, James Schuyler, and an anthology of Bolinas poets. His work has been exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery, Headstone, Dia Beacon, and others. With Alan Felsenthal, Estes runs the publishing company The Song Cave.
