Woman Reading to the Sea
By Lisa Williams
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393066432, 128pp.)
Publication Date: April 2008
Categories: American - General
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Description
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. In wonderfully crafted language, with the startling subtlety of certain of Emily Dickinson's poems, Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds-the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier; she beguiles us with the most seductive of poetic possibilities....This slender volume constitutes a journey of sorts, a pilgrimage 'out' that returns the questing poet, imagined as a companion 'you,' to her own life."-Joyce Carol Oates, prize citation











