In her extraordinary new book, "Riverborne," Mari Laureano eloquently and undeniably gives breath to myth with a mastery of tone and articulation that is at once erotic and mystical, hushed and compelling.

The poet's intensely lyrical prose transcends the boundaries that have traditionally housed poetry solely as a mechanism of literature to where it becomes an integral part of experience. Laureano explores the human emotions of love, fidelity, trust, lust, rapture and even those of nuturing vigilance. Many of the individual poems in this collection merge recurring themes and symbolism...