I-Formation Book 1

In this book Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical ways of speaking. Even though these poems exist here only on the page her voice unique and personal is present in each and it guides us through her surreal landscapes of concrete abstraction with gentle tenacity and a rich and vivid vocabulary. Everything exists in her poems as a thought as a vision as a sound through space and all at once. What a poem must do to justify its existence is to surprise us with its necessary inevitability which is what these poems do piece by piece one by one and together. -Geof Huth