TOUCHED BY STARS by Margaret A. Fox

Margaret A. Fox’s Touched by Stars sets its sights high, on the stars, and deep, in the earth. But the poet also inhabits the small spaces between. These are poems which celebrate the mystic’s questions, the physicist’s findings, and the artist’s attention. We find on each page “a constant dynamic Knowing,” whose source is sometimes the daily, sometimes a painting in the Louvre, sometimes a moment of Philosophical reflection. In a clear voice, the poems in Touched by Stars take the reader on a lovely and meditative journey “from light to dark and light again.”

–Lee Peterson, author of Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia

The poetry of Margaret A. Fox is both beautiful and deep. She explores art and love as manifestations of the human spirit in a variety of keys. High and sublime art as recreated by experience and memory, and everyday experiences felt in an artistic manner. She is concerned by our destiny and our origin, as human race and as individuals. Reading her poems are an experience of tranquility and awe, surprise and reassurance. From “Worthmore” and the experience of childhood, to “Refugee” and the human diaspora, Margaret´s poems explore a wide range of human emotions and historical situations. She is truly a compassionate person and a talented artist, qualities any poet needs to write good poetry. Her verse is serene, stable, diverse; sometimes erudite, sometimes intimate and homely. Reading her book brings you closer to our human experience, from the moment we left East Africa, to the glaciers melting under feet. Every good poem makes you feel that you are in the poem. I am sure you, reader, will find yourself in these lines.

–Nicasio Urbina, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish and American Literature, Co-editor Cincinnati Romance Review, Vice-president Festival Internacional de Poesia de Granada, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Cincinnati