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.”