Description: New poems from an original and challenging American voice
Review Quotes:
"Willis newly revives the list/litany form, and that works to the reader's delight. Edged flowers or berries in transparent wax: what the words are like. So we have the forest, along with a quite ruined New England/America. And if one is a traditional Witch, does or doesn't it help? . . . Keeper of the 'black poppy, ' poetry."--Alice Notley, author of Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
"How does the poem address both self and world? How does it address at once the light and the dark of things as they are? And from what site--or address--can it possibly speak in the profoundly unstable currents of our time? Such are among the eternal issues Elizabeth Willis movingly explores here by means of an unflinching 'devotion / to the ungoverned, ' that is, by means of the poetic imagination itself.""--Michael Palmer, author of The Lion Bridge