Description "Over the past few years, Elizabeth Jacobson has become one of my favorite American poets.
In a manner that is wonderfully relaxed and conversational, Jacobson\'s poems enter Into the most venerable and perennial of our human questions..
These are the poems we need and long for right now." --Anne Marie Macari Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air is a collection of poems wealthy with the speaker\'s intimacy with nature and with the philosophical and spiritual insights that emerge from a deep practice of close observation.
Through her love of the particular a great expanse opens within us.
I am moved to wonder, to breathe and slow down, experiencing how, as she says--the whole world is in me.
It takes some wisdom to abide, as Jacobson\'s work does, so effortlessly in paradox.
These poems arise out of a deep questioning; they are puzzles, tangled road maps we can\'t help but follow.
Beware and rejoice: this is how a very original brain thinks itself Into poems." --Marianne Boruch "Snakes, birds, insects, and all manner of strange encounters: Elizabeth Jacobson is a true observer immersed in the natural world.
Elizabeth Jacobson starts in clarity and ends in mystery, two points of imaginative departure.
Genuine curiosity fuels this book and (can we bear it?) a true savoring of the world.
This poet wanders through a range of poetic architecture--an eight-sectioned poem which begins with a woman removing her body parts, epistolary poems, prose poems, small strange lyrics of love and bewilderment.
I love this book." --Tony Hoagland "This wild, remarkable book begins in painstaking definition, via what isn\'t--to strange and dazzling discoveries of the natural world, to instinct and melancholia and surprise.
These poems carry heavy water, fetched from deep nature, in human hands.
In the way of true inquiry, Jacobson\'s poems unearth genuinely new feelings and knowledge in a clean, mature and fully achieved style.
Her work is original, deep, serious, and sensuous in ways that surprise me repeatedly.
Description "Over the past few years, Elizabeth Jacobson has become one of my favorite American poets
