Poetry. "The poems in SECOND LAW are terse, precise, ecstatic and luminous. White letters serve as lures and traces through gaps of ordered scientific discourse the rapture of the poet's will remains captive and rejoicing. In these linked fragmentary linguistic structures Elizabeth Willis enters Bunyan's emblematic river another time; singing"--Susan Howe.
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"Elizabeth Willis's work is a wonder: an open tangle of thought, a mark in the darkness, a sudden projection." -- Beverly Dahlen
"In these linked fragmentary linguistic structures Elizabeth Willis enters Bunyan's emblematic river another time; singing." -- Susan Howe
"In these linked fragmentary linguistic structures Elizabeth Willis enters Bunyan's emblematic river another time; singing." -- Susan Howe
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Elizabeth Willis is the author The Human Abstract, which won the National Poetry Series in 1997. She teaches at Mills College in Oakland.
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Elizabeth Willis, Second Law (Avenue B, 1993)
Sometimes it seems like tracking down books by certain authors could become a life's work. I finally managed to lay hands on the last Elizabeth Willis book of which I'm aware, Second Law, last week. Unlike her other collections, Second Law is a single long poem, split into five sections and an envoi (actually, this is debatable, as the second portion of the book is entitled "Second Law," while the others remain without title). While it doesn't have the punch of Turneresque, Second Law is a wonderful thing in itself. Willis manages to use L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E conventions in subversive ways, keeping the oddness without letting it divert from what's going on in the poem itself. Her language, as always, is pointed, precise, and evocative. It's somewhat difficult to build a library of Liz Willis' books, but it should be the goal of anyone interested in the many different and wonderful things language can do. *** ½
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Elizabeth Willis can be a difficult poet to understand. The emotional connection doesn't feel very present here, but her writing is very intelligent.
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