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Peripheral Visions is Gail Griffin’s account of the effects of macular degeneration on her eyesight and her spirit. Through metaphor and myth, persona and projection, anecdote and allegory, she wrenches new visions from the ruins of the old.
“In Peripheral Visions, Gail Griffin poignantly portrays the challenges of macular degeneration. Using a blend of metaphor, myth, persona, and even haiku, she vividly captures the emotional and physical dimensions of vision loss through wonderfully lyrical poems. Griffin’s poetic journey through the loss of vision is marked by moments of startling clarity and beauty…This captivating chapbook stands as a beacon of hope, illustrating that even as the central vision fades, the periphery continues to hold untold wonders and depths.”
- Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)
Gail Griffin is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces. Her first poetry collection, Omena Bay Testament, won the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, and one of its poems was honored with a Pushcart Prize in 2024. She has one previous chapbook, Virginals (Seven Kitchens Press). Gail has won both the nonfiction and the poetry contests at New Ohio Review, and her work in both genres is widely available. She lives and writes in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Peripheral Visions is Gail Griffin’s account of the effects of macular degeneration on her eyesight and her spirit. Through metaphor and myth, persona and projection, anecdote and allegory, she wrenches new visions from the ruins of the old.
“In Peripheral Visions, Gail Griffin poignantly portrays the challenges of macular degeneration. Using a blend of metaphor, myth, persona, and even haiku, she vividly captures the emotional and physical dimensions of vision loss through wonderfully lyrical poems. Griffin’s poetic journey through the loss of vision is marked by moments of startling clarity and beauty…This captivating chapbook stands as a beacon of hope, illustrating that even as the central vision fades, the periphery continues to hold untold wonders and depths.”
- Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)
Gail Griffin is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces. Her first poetry collection, Omena Bay Testament, won the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, and one of its poems was honored with a Pushcart Prize in 2024. She has one previous chapbook, Virginals (Seven Kitchens Press). Gail has won both the nonfiction and the poetry contests at New Ohio Review, and her work in both genres is widely available. She lives and writes in Kalamazoo, Michigan.