Drift

The poems in Drift range from Cape Cod to Arizona to the Yazidi refugee camps in Greece. In the tradition of writers like Mary Oliver, Lindemann is a generous, wise, and elegant guide to the physical and psychic landscapes she traverses. These are poems about reaching out and about letting go; like all good artists, she finds meaning-and often delight-in the murk of contradiction.

"Whether writing about the physical world or about human connections, Lindemann sees the extraordinary in the co...