Her subjects are everywhere: inside apartment houses and alongside towering buildings, on streets and sidewalks, or beneath them, at the water's edge and in the changing heavens. In her able hands, through her painterly eye and rich vision, the odd scraps of urban life are converted into a sort of Platonic dialogue of fruitful enigmas, paradoxes, and playful epiphanies.

" P]oems of abrupt perception and rigorous lyricism."New York Times Book Review "I love Elizabeth Macklin's poems."--Thomas Lux "The joy and intelligence in these poems is simply tremendous."--Tomaz Salamun, author of The Four Questions of Melancholy "Mastery as well as mystery, and we are grateful for what we've just been told."--Richard Howard "Macklin the Magician does it again ....dazzling evocations."--Marie Ponsot, author of The Bird Catcher " A]n exceedingly wise book--and joyful, too, though the joy is never glib or easy-won..."--Bill McKibben "Elizabeth...