Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority.
Boruch is not flamboyant or flashy, armored in theory or swimming with a school. Her poems build toward blazing insights with the utmost honesty and care. And their quiet authority brings readers back, sometimes breathlessly, to examine their reverberating centers and luminous recognitions.
As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch’s is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible. It is about the risks—and the satisfactions—of confronting the many layers of anxiety and intensity that define modern existence."
