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Perhaps, in these poems, Fredric Hildebrand wants to arrive at a place “where silence is enough.” He knows that “Nothing is simple and alone.” He refuses to see what's not there, which is to say he sees what is: an emergency room doctor encounters “People walking/in all directions, everybody/trying to get to a different place;” a farmer says, “...

Fredric Hildebrand can paint this “northern portrait” because he has a careful eye looking over the “summer farms and fields” and the “pine-thick forests.” He can see the “intersection of gray abandonment” and the sign at the abandoned tavern, which still speaks “the old language.” He remembers the hundred years in his grandmother’s eyes “like /...

In this stunning debut collection, A Glint of Light, Fredric Hildebrand celebrates--with sadness, praise, and astute observations-nature, the seasons, and people among us. In short luminous poems, he reveals the extraordinary aspects of ordinary things.

A native of Neenah, Wisconsin, Hildebrand weaves this rural setting into his work, paying...