Description: A truly sui generis book, blending poetry, fiction, and fact to inquire into the entangled lives of Emily Dickinson and a fictional speaker.
Brief description: Amy Pence authored the poetry collections Armor, Amour (Ninebark Press), The Decadent Lovely (Main Street Rag), and the chapbook, Skin's Dark Night (2River Press). She's also published short fiction and non-fiction in a variety of journals, and makes her home in Pine Lake, Georgia.
Review Quotes:
Each stark and luminous poem in this stunning sequence is more gorgeous and startling than the last; taken together, they form a kind of tapestry into which the voice of the speaker and the voice of Emily Dickinson are so seamlessly interwoven it becomes almost impossible to tell where one leaves off and the other begins.
Cecilia Woloch
Author of Earth, Carpathia, and Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem
"At the periphery of trauma, can we ever conceal the self?" Amy Pence asks in her brilliantly disquieting poetic meditation on the lacunae of Emily Dickinson. An unidentified fictive narrator imagines herself telling Dickinson, "Everyone wants to unstitch you"--but "don't I fathom you, pull your unquiet face from the weave?" What [It] Incandescent so powerfully offers is not a "face," but instead a series of conjectures, a sophisticated interpretation of interpretations that continue to haunt both narrator and reader.
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Author of Carta Marina, Dream Cabinet, and Mississippi