ISBN: 0615697208 9780615697208

Category: Poetry / American / General

Page count: 54

The danger of preoccupation with the material ("The world is too much with us..." asWordsworth put it) is a perennial subject of poetry. Yet poets have to navigate throughand communicate with the things of this world, however much their interests may liebeyond the immediate here and now. The best writing is open to and informed by bothrealms.<br> Annie Bien's poems have a profound sense of otherness and vision, even while theyare so precisely located in the recognizable world. Equally aware of our limits and ourpotential, they are prayerful, thoughtful meditations from a journey we embark on withall creatures.<br> Pat Boran, Poet