LOVED this. Often I can't summon the energy to devote myself to poetry, but these poems sprang out and demanded I pay attention. From the first poem on I was hooked. Her themes accomodate both with and melodrama while her language trips along with sweet ease.

I wasn't equally in love with each piece of course. The first book has a lot of melancholy stuff about death and longing, which was nice but not particularly interesting to me at this moment. Then the second book bored me a bit with all this tralala so light and free and so above monogamy... Historically interesting, but again, didn't click with me. The pieces that shook me up and down were the ones about how to deal with beauty. Sometimes it is too much, and as a paltry human you cannot properly meet it - she describes that frustration and overwhelmedness perfectly.

I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass.

Also, the pieces about longing for water and for travel are golden...

My heart is warm with the friends I make
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.