BOOKS
“Lindsay Rockwell does not just write poetry, she creates environments. As she writes, “worlds are being born.” Her use of sound and inventive language infuses her lines with a wild lusciousness of emotion. These are poems not to grasp with the intellect as much as to enter “like a bowl of sky.”
“In poems both diaphanous and muscled, Lindsay Rockwell gives body and voice to the ineffable, a world of “quiet collide,” where ghost fires flare and we long both to “backward fall” and “forward lean,” where “we are all versions of a fortress” and “holding is not an option”—but also where “lifting to the light is the birthright of being.” From start to finish, along with the poet, I find it “impossible not to gasp.”
READING FROM GHOST FIRES
Lindsay Rockwell readings from Ghost Fires
Broadside Books, June 2023. Standing room only.
Book Reviews I’ve Written
Poetics as Temporal Landscape: A Review of When the Horses by Mary Helen Callier
When the Horses | Mary Helen Callier
Bear Review | by Lindsay Rockwell | May 2025
“When the Horses, by Mary Helen Callier, is everything elegant and nothing simple.
Callier’s capacity to embed the ordinary in both linear and non-linear landscapes is a tour-de-force, a choreography of intellect rooted in the somatics of image and metaphor. Each poem is a world, and when interwoven into the body that is this collection, in seven numbered sections, I am left speechless and sated. ..”