In the bone-dry land of mesquites and drought, Janice Whittington has found images that allow her to explore woman s place in West Texas and the world from the perspectives of daughter, wife, friend, and mother. Filled with fear and fire, joy and sorrow, dust and water; the poems risk stepping into air, striving to glide like hawks on thermals. Into a Thousand Mouths is the account of Eve after the fall, after she follows her husband out of the garden and of tilling yield.... It is the account of one woman, of all women that female secret of wombs, / the ache that folds into the chest / and...

Probably the best book to come out this year. Not only is this the most beautifully bound book of poetry I think I ve ever seen, but Thom Satterlee is obviously a master at his craft. Suite101.com Thom Satterlee has fashioned a new genre, a contemporary hagiography in verse, primarily narrative but seasoned with lyric occasion. Burning Wyclif offers a deeply personal, word-savoring vision of a word-afflicted man, with the paradox and mystery one would expect of the life of a heretic and saint. Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection: New & Selected Poems For its lyrical but authoritative...