Calling the Names

In Calling the Names Mark Saba finds cues of the universal in anonymous encounters. He reconciles the "loose ends" of echoes from the past with the "painstakingly familiar"; During a five-hour train ride he prefers to read the lives that pass by on the other side of the window rather than a book. He finds himself in the balance between heaven and earth, the known and the unknown, in a book rich with the lyrical details of his observations about the human condition.