Betsy Sholl is the author of nine previous poetry collections, including House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems, Otherwise Unseeable, Rough Cradle, Late Psalm, Don't Explain, and The Red Line. A former poet laureate of Maine, she teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
"Pulses with the tension between irrepressible life force and
inevitable loss. . . . Though this book is Sholl's extended
meditation on the loss of her husband, she hears music even in the
trauma of her bereavement."--Portland Press Herald
"Attuned as she is to harmony--musical, spiritual, earthly--Sholl
weaves seemingly miscellaneous notes into vibrant wholes. She
references Dante more than once and it's apt, for she is very much
a pilgrim, someone who conveys the feeling of being in it--the
tangle that is a moment, a street scene, a biblical incident--and
that is a key to her achievement, her openness to the ways of
being. Great compassion marks these poems, that inestimable talent
for tracing the ways of kinship, how one occasion graces
another."--Baron Wormser
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