“What does it mean to be a person in relation to others, both human andanimal? Rife with observations of the natural and manmade worlds,Creature by Kathryn Kirkpatrick is a garden of awareness and grief,insistence and wonder. In this …
"In this richly imagistic and formally inventive collection, Christopher Nelson illuminates the dailiness of beauty and horror juxtaposed in our natural and private worlds. These poems see straight through to the actual, at once unflinching and tender. ‘I’ve …
"What a remarkable sensibility lives in Mark Neely’s Late Stage, at times cynical and witty, at times filled with awe at an America that is at once beautiful and uncanny and more than a little frightening. Here …
“Here the poet sings to ‘the congress of spotted turtles on a log,’ while ‘cats track sunbeams around the house’ and somewhere above us ‘the swirling eye of August, silent at its center, / contains whole flocks of birds.’ Magical things happen …
