From Oklahoma to Minnesota, Ohio to Nebraska, Vogt traces his life through the echo of his ancestors who settled the southern Plains in the 1800s. With poems based on black and white family photographs, past stories seep out from the worn edges. In a rich array of forms and evocative imagery, the poems in Afterimage reach through prairie history until grass becomes skin, and light becomes shadow.
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After a small patio garden at the author’s last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas of a new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place full of delight, anguish, and rapture. Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, Sleep, Creep, Leap will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.
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