Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America

"Elizabeth Arnold's poems are structures for our times: built to move and to hold. Within them surge the elemental forces, the earth's deep patterns and the human-driven, breakneck hurts—and the poet's own migratory mind, coming honestly to terms with her restless and embattled life. In Wave House, her sixth book, she emerges as one of our great American contemporaries. Niedecker, Oppen, and Pound are Arnold's forebears, though she sloughs away nativist habits, 'unhindered by belief, / utterly available.' If,...