"[Sophie Cabot Black has] concocted a way of speaking in poetry that's very fresh and daring." –
Billy Collins, The New York Times"Cabot has a gift for abstracting the familiar in an effort to recapture memory, skillfully using negation to suspend sense... In these poems Black weaves sheer elegance and devastating knowing." –
Publishers Weekly, starred review"These poems remind us of the ways we each pass through the stations of a life. In doing this, they capture the wonder of trying to inhabit life's shapes at all... With precision, Black's poems skirt great mysteries." –
NPR, "All Things Considered""The poems in
The Exchange... are emphatically alive. This fierce energy breathes life back into the hopeless soul .... " –
Huffington Post"Black's voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and
The Descent is steep, precipitous and dazzling-all the way down from a hard-earned heaven." –
Los Angeles Times Book Review"Black is a passionate and breathlessly forceful writer...
The Misunderstanding of Nature is a distinguished collection, one of the liveliest first books in years." –
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