Asleep in the Fire
"Asleep in the Fire", The University of Alabama Press, The Alabama Poetry Series, 1990. For purchase via Amazon here.
"Asleep in the Fire is a brilliant first collection of poems. The language is everywhere fresh and bright, the words themselves like pebbles in a clear brook. The poet comes wonderfully to light with a voice with deep spiritual resonance. Chard deNiord is a splendid new presence on the poetry scene."
-Jay Parini
"In these spry and thoughtful poems a splendor of loving irony embraces deNiord's world, and it lights up with his warm, intelligent attentions. Here is the spirit's acumen made articulate."
-Stephen Sandy