Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Laura Jensen's poems are the type that get published in The New Yorker and fine literary magazines; they have a subdued, personal voice masking a quiet intensity. In this first collection, the best pieces are poignant, dramatic, depicting the faces of the artist in short, straightforward syntax
and complex, intricately connected thoughts. Dense, surreal images form delicate constructs tenuously related or not quite holding together. Often lyrical and moving, some are too unfocused and obscure, so precarious is this type of deep imagist poetry—language almost effacing itself, attempting to metamorphose completely into image. What holds our attention and admiration is the compelling mixture of the exotic and familiar and the strange provocative dream-logic of image and observation." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)