Careful Mountain

Careful Mountain is the third book by the polynymous Sara June Woods/Moss Angel/Never Angeline Nørth etc. A kaleidoscope of nature broken love poems run-on sentences and letters full of digressions that take on a life of their own this volume has Woods/Angel approaching poetry but never quite letting it take hold. Featuring an 8-part poem titled Speckled Flowers that spills into the 16-part poem Warm Morning that spills into a mess of romantic broken playful surrealist letters to various subjects and fictional characters. This book lives in a world of its own and as is usual for Woods/Angel makes gestures toward prior books (Sara or the Existence of Fire) and those to come (Sea-Witch)....Magic real magic. These poems are spells.-Dorothea Lasky author of ROME: PoemsSara June Woods fills her poetry with ephemeral romance and love that disappears and slips away from tangibility and firmness--as soon as the image becomes clear it moves again. This is a gorgeous book. -Casey Plett author of Little Fish and A Safe Girl to LoveConstantly pulling the rug out from under scenarios she invents for her own pleasure or drama with quick shifts of location or scenario Woods blurs and blends boundaries with sardonic freshness longing and humor. -Trace Peterson co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Woods is a gleeful master of the run on sentence. I am in awe of her ability to keep going to stretch a tiny corner of the world over the page until it rips open and leaks out another.-Leopoldine Core author of When Watched and Veronica Bench [Saras] writing is so bright you can notice it behind a burning cloud. -Sybil Lamb author of Ive Got a Time Bomb