Written and arranged in an experimental mode akin to music or choreography, these fragmented lyrics create space and resonance honouring the physical splendour of both the body and the poem. This new edition includes several new poetic sequences and an extended essay.
"With "one foot in the office the other lolling/ about the field," Warren (Here Come the Warm Jets) probes at what "lies between/ want and need." Amid the comforting concreteness of fact and the energetic forces of dream and instinct, Warren sings "of something that cannot speak/ its name though its signature is everywhere." Her poems are lean and energetic-most do not exceed a page-but they can be slippery and bewildering in their tight-packed complexity...Warren directs her aptitude for rhyme and aural texture to conveying the shape and expression of human desire ("we have nothing/ between gasps/ of great need"), as well as the political structures that have evolved through these hungers: given the tendency of borders to "burst open under their/ propensity for feasting," Warren encourages readers to "embrace your finitude/ as the end of accumulation."-Publishers Weekly
