In Janet Trenchard's first collection, Infrared, the poems survey a crumbling past sifted through memory and imagination, a kaleidoscope where at every turn a new pattern is revealed, a new perspective falls into place. Trenchard pairs her artist's keen eye with equal attention to language's music and rhythm to create an at times haunting collection where goddesses and gods walk among us, mere mortals rise from ashes, and where that which falls apart finds shape and meaning once more. Unforgettable.

Sally Ashton, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate (2011-2013), Editor-in-Chief...