Beth Anderson
The Habitable World
ISBN 09679854-1-2
10 dollars

[E]ach poem coaxes the reader into 'asking what remains' when one no longer accepts the surface uses of language: just then the 'ponderous leaf' of a thinking poetry is flying. The poems in The Habitable World call up the image of a lexicographer at work, serious and informed yes, but no somber technician: we are often surprised with her questioning and witty imagination. These moments hinge on what seems like a logical syntax that swiftly opens into possibility.

--Camille Guthrie