“Language as continuous with the natural world” — Sharon Bryan, The Boston Review
“Superb poems in which the poet swings from earth and the quotidian to space and the larger connections of nature.” — San Jose Mercury News
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Call and Response, a collection of new and selected poems, is forthcoming.
”The new vantage points of the physics of our time are alive in this poetry. It crackles like some source of energy we had no idea we had lived without and now, of course, would not.”
— Jorie Graham, Poet, Boylston Professor, Harvard University
“Defining, broadening the window of reason” – Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review
”A sensuality, an unabashed play with language.” — Lee Upton, Belles Lettres
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following editors and publishers in whose publications some of these poems first appeared, often in earlier versions.
The Atlantic, Peter Davison, and David Barber, poetry editors
Best American Poetry, editors: David Lehman and Jorie Graham
Carolina Quarterly
The Georgia Review, Stanley W. Lindberg, editor 1977-2000
Graywolf Press, National Poetry Award book, selected by Jorie Graham
The Hudson Review, Paula Deitz, editor-in-chief
Milkweed Editions, several volumes edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director, publisher
New South Books, volume edited by Jennifer Horne
The New Yorker, poetry editor Alice Quinn
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, assigning editor David Shipley
Partisan Review, Rosanna Warren, edition editor
Prairie Schooner
Southwest Review, Willard Spiegelman, editor emeritus
Verse, Bonnie Costello, edition editor
University Press of New England, Deborah DeNicola, volume editor