every robin i never quite saw by Sonya Smith Robin Robertson and the transcendent shock of

and the transcendent shock of prophecy

uncollected poems

most recently The Uses of the Body (2015) and The Last Usable Hour (2011) with Copper Canyon Press

Hannah Bagshaw

John Keats

every robin i never quite saw by Sonya Smith Robin Robertson and the transcendent shock ofBeneath a deceptively calm surface, a powerful voice offers original slants on the ambiguous aspects of loving people. Aspects that are hard to talk directly about and are somehow deeply entwined with the natural world. These poems are placed at compass points encircling the object of love, whether that be another person or oneself, sensually embracing everything that interrupts the view.