This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. "Quirky, electric poems, spare and challenging." Peter Matthiessen

"Martine Bellen is a poet of refreshing complexity. Her unpredictable disjunctions and conjunctions and her baroque mix of vivid images and meticulous abstractions make one uncertain whether these poems (in verse composed of prose segments) are precise narrations of the contingent or of dreams or of the former masquerading as the latter. They are full of surprises." Jackson Mac Low

"Martine Bellen's poems dissolve ...