Headwaters

"Luminous. . . . Each reading reveals the tug of opposites, and in this tension the poet shows her brilliance."-Library Journal, starred review

Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages-owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills-and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetime's worth of skills herse...