There is a mythic quality to the poetry of Roger Armbrust. Whether his subject is surgery or angels, his language and vision--while expressed in an earthly lexicon--are focused on the life of the spirit.

We constantly heal each other, love, true
to our senses, sharing our secret vaults
of fear and longing, faith and confusion,
doubt and delight.

Armbrust's love poems are not ethereal, however, but rooted in real bodies...

My poetry honors your architecture's mystery.

Fanciful, yet rooted in real experience, Armbrust's one hundred-plus sonnets incite passion and introspection, so that the collection makes an inspired lover's gift.