13 Quotes by Jorie Graham

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary’s new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

Touch pain with great curiosity.