Scattered showers are always welcome from too clear a sky. The
poems here offer the continuing relief of the bit of fanciful yet
renewing reality poetry can bring - and does, with wonderful
regularity in this book. Higgins gives us "Nature's palpable
design" in a kaleidoscope of images: a dozen or so poems of birds
writing their own ineffable designs on the world; the glories of a
"Junk Drawer"; the closely observed material word of locks and
their openings. Images everywhere that bring us home - "Women with
feet like cudgels"; the way "the sun crept up and turned its key in
my face" and, always the affirming grace: "After all, I turn to
grinning."
Beautifully realized images, tightly captured senses that
gravitate toward the "molten core," our own clipped wings seeking
anyway the sky, this is a book worth revisiting again and again.
Let us have more of these scatterings.
Martin Galvin, Ph.D., teacher, author of Wild Card, winner of the
Columbia Prize for poetry in 1989
This collection is rich with image and emotion. Moving back and
forth between the natural world and the sphere of human endeavors,
the poet finds the connections between them, whether ironic or
tender. No easy answers, but a voice to accompany us all as we
travel our own paths.
Deborah Humphreys, poet and author of Conventional Wisdom
"The woman welcomed the wet of it to her house" Anne Higgins
writes in a poem about the inundation of rain. Reading this volume,
I see how that line characterizes the voice of Higgins' work, that
of a poet finding her place in the world, assessing and accepting
it with wonder and a kind of Buddhist patience. The themes and
topics include nature, youth and aging, language, art, death, and
weather, all largely couched in the familiar world of goodwill
coats, houses, schoolgirls, junk-drawer junk, tools, maps and
animals. Among it all, what strikes me most in these poems is the
poet's sympathy with both the living and the inanimate, and an
unshaken sense of humanity.
Sarah Sloat, poet
Anne Higgins' poetry is wonderfully genuine. With attention to
detail, and a simple honesty of emotion, she invites the reader
into her work to become part of the creative process, to make it
their own. It is impossible to read Anne's work without feeling
that connection to it and wanting more.
Lisa Prince, poet and moderator of Inside the Writers Studio
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