In iridescent, intimate lines, Carol Moldaw’s Beauty Refracted is a stunning tapestry of the ways we are marked by time. From the “unstaunchable grief” of losing a parent to the experience of raising a child through adolescence, Moldaw peels back the veil of the everyday to discover the metaphysical passions hidden underneath.

CAROL MOLDAW is an award-winning author of one novel and six books of poetry, including The Lightning Field, winner of Oberlin’s FIELD Prize. The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, as well as other honors, Moldaw received her MA in creative writing from Boston University. Currently Moldaw teaches privately and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and daughter.