Engages with the image in the history of poetry, as well as with contemporary poets, philosophers, archaeologists, artists, and cultural critics
Melissa Kwasny has published four collections of poems, two novels, and the anthology Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. She is also, with M. L. Smoker, editor of I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. She lives near Jefferson City, Montana.
Praise for Melissa Kwasny: "Melissa Kwasny's poems are so exact in their movement and presentation, so fresh in their botanical and observatory language, they invoke for the reader, with aching clarity, what it would be like to be brave enough to touch both the inner and outer worlds simultaneously, and with identical honesty and care."-Christopher Howel "Melissa Kwasny's work serves as a brilliant tonic, reminding us of the essential gravitas of poems of distinction. Hers present a richly textured surface and a deeply thoughtful interior, and have a compassion that deftly mingles the scholarly page with beauticians' hopes and tobacco pouches; a naturalist's tight focus with the wide gaze of a woman of the world; a lyricist's gifts with a philosopher's understandings. This is the real-deal stuff." -Albert Goldbarth "These thirty-seven poems are eccentric in the true meaning of the word--off-center. Their titles, bearing the names of weeds, flowers, herbs, trees, are merely points of departure. 'How hard can it be,' the poet asks, 'to lie down in the green/mussed bed of the senses ... in clover.' Whether it's clover or rue, aspen or moss, the reader is invited into that rich and rumpled bed." -Maxine Kumin "This book will be like having all one's favorite poets in one room, accompanied by a stunningly compact and comprehensive introduction which locates each in the luminously executed arc of the entire collection." -Patricia Goedicke "We know what happened when the Shelleys gathered by candlelight one summer to tell ghost stories; now imagine the wind has blown the villa's doors open again to welcome 25 additional immortals--a brilliant congeries of poets' voices."-Sandra Alcosser
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