Poetry. Solitude and memory teach an individual heart and body lessons of desire, persistence, survival and absence.

Aletheia is a Greek word variously translated as 'unclosedness, ' 'unconcealedness, ' 'disclosure, ' or 'truth.' All of these closely related meanings, and the differences among them, are the subject matter of Andrea Applebee's bright, burning poetry. 'To lightly touch the length of your cheek / as if it were water // time, good luck, bad. What does it matter / to us, in the late light--' --John Ashberry