Eve Was a Realist: Poems for the Untamed Heart

In Eve Was a Realist, a collection of poems written over the last decade, Fiona Robertson invokes the complexities and pains of flesh-and-blood living, while also celebrating moments of awe, revelation, and emergence. She throws off the shackles of anodyne spirituality, and invites us into the depths, where paradox abounds and nothing is quite what it seems on the surface.

Robertson's poems emerge from moments of raw, visceral experience, and speak to both the tremulously personal and the b...