Earth at Perihelion

<p>The poems in Pamela Hobart Carter's <em>Earth at Perihelion</em> hold luminous visions of our immense home. Earth itself is a leading character. The deep past-of geology mythology and cosmology-returns to the present as music and insight. Creeks mumble in their own language; persons sit among fat marmots. Family intimacies include a mother's love poem to her daughter and an aunt as entranced with polliwogs as the poet is. A wondrous book a gift.</p><p></p><p>-Priscilla Long author of <em>Crossing Over: Poems</em> and <em>Holy Magic</em></p><p></p><p>The language in <em>Earth at Perihelion</em> is brilliant sibilant imaginative haunting vulnerable and above all precise spanning time epochs and geological truths.</p><p></p><p>-Risa Denenberg author of <em>Rain/Dweller</em></p>