Description: Composed of acrostics from lines by Emily Dickinson, it retains a direct and recurrent tie to Dickinson's work, even while Hazelton deftly branches off into new sonic, rhythmic, and conceptual territories.
Review Quotes: "This astonishing debut comes with its own set of poetics, one that'll have present-day readers slapping their foreheads and saying 'Why didn't I think of that?' and future readers devising poetics of their own. Good luck to them! It's hard to imagine anyone else evoking the warmth, the appeal, and the nervous intensity of Dickinson's poetry the way Rebecca Hazelton does with these poems that pay tribute to yet transcend their roots in the fertile soil of Amherst." --David Kirby