Evocations Author:Howard Stein No subject springs to life for readers if it is not first evoked by the writer. Poetry and petri dishes usher from the same womb of the imagination. In Howard Stein's new collection of poetry, Evocations, the reader is transported beyond the conventional and often constraining worlds of description, analysis, and interpretation. ... more » The social-scientist narrator becomes conjurer of experiences of life and death; of vitality and sickness; of tenderness and deception; of foreignness and familiarity; of the everyday politics of corporate life; of the vast North American Great Plains; and of the in-between times and places of life's transitions. The journey is a familiar one to us all. Stein's evocations are at once singular and plural in unison with perhaps everyone. His poetry evolves and takes root in a transitional space neither precisely here nor there -- but somewhere in between.« less