Elizabeth Willis, Author . Burning Deck $10 (96p) ISBN 978-1-886224-62-9
Indulging in the quintessentially poetic art of associating things that have never been found together before, Willis (The Human Abstract)
here combines the haunting luminosity of English painter J.M.W. Turner with the lucid black-and-white of...
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Elizabeth Willis, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $22.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6813-7
Guided by the spirit of 18th-century botanist and intellectual Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), the poems of Willis's fourth book attempt to reclaim a natural world that has been made hazy by postindustrial and popular culture. The 55
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Elizabeth Willis, Wesleyan, $22.95 (76p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7098-2
Anne Hutchinson, Sen, Katherine Harris, and a catalogue of the poisonous plants of America all find their way into this fifth book from Willis (Meteoric Flowers). Willis's fascination with forms originating outside of poetry—"F.A.Q," "Flow Chart," "B
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Elizabeth Willis. New York Review Books, $14 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59017-864-5
Willis (Address) has been enthralling, challenging, and frustrating the poetry cognoscenti with hermetic, allusive, scholarly, and startlingly opaque verse and prose since the early 1990s: “When I point to the island I mean a body on a map. Think...
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