The past becomes present in Ann Eichler Kolakowski's rich collection PERSISTENCE. The community of Warren, Maryland is not simply "gone but not forgotten" here; Kolakowski's poems are an act of restoration. As Elizabeth Spires writes: "In PERSISTENCE, Ann Eichler Kolakowski meditates on the making and unmaking of Warren, Maryland, a mill town north of Baltimore flooded in 1922 to make way for the Loch Raven Reservoir. 'There was a town here once, and then there wasn't,' writes the poet, following in the footsteps of Robert Frost and Edgar Lee Masters, as she deftly tells her story from a multiplicity of viewpoints, including her grandmother's. This is a book that celebrates incident and anecdote, striking in its simplicity and fluent craft. Kolakowski's masterful retrieval of a vanished past is full of quiet revelations about what lies at the center and periphery of seemingly ordinary lives." Ned Balbo adds this praise: "Whether writing in her own voice or those of Warren's vanished...

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