Bending into the Light

A beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic.

The poems in Alice Attie’s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised on an ever—shifting threshold where words “up and down, side to side” appear as “figures in the distance approaching, each a declaration, each persisting”. Beings, things, ideas, present or vanishing, flow through the vessel of language wherein each exudes “its own aura, its own being, its own disappearance.” Attie’s voice is intricate and intima...