With an eye for detail and with textured language, Mariano Zaro’s The Weight of Sound asks the ineffable questions: how do we all suffer?—how do we survive the suffering? This collection’s poems bristle with gorgeous syntax which allows the reader to feel, as the speaker in “After the Diagnosis” says, “as though beauty could cure anything.” You, dear reader, will want to know.

Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Emerita