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by Elaine Equi
"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud."
From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The New York Times), Equi's subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange ways we make sense of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.
"These endlessly quotable, epigrammatic poems articulate the human experience with the ethereality of a harp and the coy trill of a cymbal. Equi's linguistic dexterity and innovation are nonpareil." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"In her splendid continuance of cascading thinking, Elaine Equi unfolds the ordinary. Her pluckiness billows in this latest collection where solid matter morphs with edgy surprise in a poetics that speaks straight to us. Nobody quite knocks it out of the ballpark like Equi!" —Maureen Owen, author of Everything Turns on a Delicate Measure
"Nestled within the seductive mastery Equi displays, we find poems on time, taking stock, emotions, dreams, commonality. There are regrets conveyed with a sense of humor. There's music, even Lorca's guitar. The mood is almost unnoticeably quieter. 'Sepia light/seeps / into everything.' Delight in this superb collection." —Vincent Katz, author of Broadway for Paul
"I have always marveled at Elaine Equi's poems. She does more with fewer words than any other poet I know. And yet, I would not call her a minimalist, but a maximalist, who writes with graceful humor and leads us gently into the dark and haunted places in our thinking." —John Yau, author of Tell It Slant
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Known for her witty, aphoristic, and innovative work, Elaine Equi is the author of over ten collections of poetry. Her books include Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize; Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Sentences and Rain; and The Intangibles. In 2023, she was the guest editor of the annual anthology, The Best American Poetry.
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