Review:
Publishers Weekly"
San Francisco Chronicle"
Harvard Review"
This first book of her own poems displays descriptive vigor and emotive verve. Fauna and flora cavort, writhe, or unfold amid McQuade s effusive visuality. Publishers Weekly"
McQuade is a nature poet, but her poems see mice, bees, and worms (to name a few of the species that pass before her lens) as anarchists, not big-eyed Disney creatures singing barbershop harmonies . . . . McQuade uses language in order not to be used by it. Everything has meaning for her. San Francisco Chronicle"
McQuade s poems are meant to mystify as well as illuminate, and their vim and individuality make them worth learning her language. Harvard Review"
"McQuade's poems are meant to mystify as well as illuminate, and their vim and individuality make them worth learning her language."-- "Harvard Review"
"This first book of her own poems displays descriptive vigor and emotive verve. Fauna and flora cavort, writhe, or unfold amid McQuade's effusive visuality."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"McQuade is a nature poet, but her poems see mice, bees, and worms (to name a few of the species that pass before her lens) as anarchists, not big-eyed Disney creatures singing barbershop harmonies . . . . McQuade uses language in order not to be used by it. Everything has meaning for her."-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
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- PublisherFour Way Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1884800270
- ISBN 13 9781884800276
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72