In her poem "Boardwalk," Sara Robinson describes, with her usual
visual acuity and meditative suppleness, citizens of her beloved
Elkton, Virginia, who are "keepers / of voices who sing of things
they are / and things they are not." What is true of her generously
imagined townspeople is true of Robinson herself. In this debut
volume, she sings of what she is--keen historian of particular
people in a particular place, a little girl growing up into
visionary adulthood, sympathetic friend and family member,
attentive observer of local flora and fauna, both animal and
human--and of what she is not, what is not part of her immediate
sensory experience but what nevertheless presents itself abundantly
to her capable understanding: eruptions of violence, past and
present; other landscapes, domestic and foreign; other selfscapes
in people she treats with compassionate dignity. Perceptual
traveler, efficient narrator, fearless experimenter, Sara Robinson
gives us precious treasure here. - STEPHEN CUSHMAN, Robert C.
Taylor Professor American Literature, Poetry (Univ. of VA); Author
of Poetry Collections: Riffraf (2011), Heart Island (2006), Cussing
Lessons (2002), and Blue Pajamas (1998).
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