Description: New poems from an original and challenging American voice
Review Quotes:
"Elizabeth Willis's language in Address is both brilliantly chatty and essentially nondiscursive. It proceeds by anaphora and listing, by surprise and non sequitur, makes you laugh out loud at the deftness of its wit, then dangles you over an emotive abyss, then stops you in your tracks before suggestive blankness."--Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash
"In the engagement with current poetic record and its heresies, Address arrives at an environment fraught with an argument it creates by also refuting it. It feels inevitable that Address ends with the possibility of going out of ourselves and addresses by harnessing materials from our discontinuities into an opening."--Fancisco "Kokoy" Guevara, Jacket2
"The reader must stay with Willis all the way to grasp her often unexpected associations, her wide-ranging artistic and political references, and her insistence that the reader has something of acivic duty to engage in the discussion. It's worth the trip."--Carol Bere, Women's Review of Books
"How Willis situates her poems in an experimental tradition is useful for thinking through the formal parallels and divergences between queer time and the temporal orientations of experimental poetics."--Davy Knittle, Jacket2
"Willis's address is unmistakable: these are poems that 'tell you what you've done.'"--Publishers Weekly
"The poems assay the fraught American climate--addressing the deep injustices and missed communications that mark our contemporary social moment. Willis has the finest ear for the lyric amongst her generation. (T)he intense beauty of the work is an unblinking testament to the poet's sense that the stakes for language are becoming impossibly high. Address shows us that music, too, can have an undeniable ferocity."--Richard Deming, Boston Review
"Address is mischievous enough to be pleasurable, dangerous enough to keep you alert, and just strange enough to provide the good company you didn't know you were missing until it arrived to greet you."--Jeanne Marie Beaumont, citation, PEN New England Award
"Elizabeth Willis's language in Address is both brilliantly chatty and essentially nondiscursive. It proceeds by anaphora and listing, by surprise and non sequitur, makes you laugh out loud at the deftness of its wit, then dangles you over an emotive abyss, then stops you in your tracks before suggestive blankness."--Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash
"Humorous, political, engaged, and deeply resonant--at the end you'll start again."--Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail