Now That We're Here
It is surprising to find in any book so many poems which reward patient reading, so many poems to pass along. That the gorgeously associative poems of Elizabeth Rees are rooted in female life its floods and its cycles--is much less a surprise. The oldest story is not by or about men. The same will be true of our greatest poem.
- Austin Hummell, poetry editor of PASSAGES NORTH
Elizabeth Rees offers us a Cantata for Grief, a vessel in which to collect our tears. She realizes that X doesn't necessarily mark the spot where treasure is buried. And like Persephone, her peripatetic search for the way home leads to all things past and future, all things seen and unseen, all things transcendent and truly holy.
-Richard Peabody, editor of Gargoyle Magazine
Elizabeth Rees begins Now That We're Here with a poem shaped like a key, and we smile to discover it opens up a collection of road poems driving to get away or to discover or simply to enjoy the ride. Rees also trusts us with the key to her home as she explores domestic themes family, love, sex, childbirth, and death. Finally, the key sets the tone: with musical phrasing and rich, figurative language, these poems move from playfulness to wonder to grief to tender resignation without a false note.
- Richard Newman, author of Borrowed Towns, editor of River Styx
33 pages
English edition · First published 2008 by Spire Press, Incorporated · ISBN 9781934828014
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