The Girl of the Early Race

Lovers of poetry who remember Deborah Boe's critically acclaimed debut book, Mojave, will wonder why she published no subsequent book - until now. As Thomas Simmons of the University of Iowa wrote in his September 6, 1999, review of Mojave on Amazon: "Deborah Boe is one of the most under-rated poets in America. I have never understood why [her] first volume, the 1987 Mojave, was not quickly followed by an equally stellar second book. Certainly the three poems of Boe's in the March 1986 issu...