The Rule of Participation: Collected Poems

Joyce James has honed her poet's voice to a keen edge in this collection of her work. Her evocative poetry haunts the heart and imagination. Her work is lauded by Seamus Heaney, Editor of the 1984 Special Poetry Issue of Ploughshares who selected "Wild Canaries on a Twenty-Mile Stretch of Highway" and "Catbirds" for publication in that volume. In his review of "Catbirds" Heaney wrote, "I think it's a lovely, pure, exultant yet wounded music and world that you conjure."

After Heaney read Ms....