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Woman Reading to the Sea
“Lisa Williams brings us a poetry of intense observation yoked with equal force to celebration and cerebration.”—Gregory Orr
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. . . . Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds—the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier. . . . This slender volume constitutes a journey.”—Joyce Caro...more
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. . . . Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds—the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier. . . . This slender volume constitutes a journey.”—Joyce Caro...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
October 19th 2009
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published April 14th 2008)
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Finished reading this bold and stellar collection, full of incredible imagery and fresh language. My only complaint was that I felt at times that the poems were almost too skilled, too polished, as if at times that the joy was passed over in preference of precision, which caused me to feel too satiated, so that the continued exquisite use of language dulled, rather than intrigued and inspired. The first part of the book was stunning, and the 'Restoration' sequence left me wanting more. It was ...more
There are some beautiful poems in this collection, but I'm left kinda feeling 'eh' overall. Maybe I wasn't quite in the right frame of mind or mood, and there were some lovely images...
I enjoyed the evocative poems about nature, birds, tides the sea, etc. I wasn't touched by the whole book, but half is pretty good for a poetry book. Some of the literary homage to other poets left me cold. Not "poetry educated" enough I guess, to understand the allusions.
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Lisa Williams is the author of one previous volume, The Hammered Dulcimer. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, and New England Review. She teaches at Centre College and lives in Danville, Kentucky."
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