Starland

From the trapdoors and spy/code that once enchanted her while reading Nancy Drew to bumblebees struck by frost still sucking from the cups/ of blossoms Jessica Purdy feels the pulse of mystery underlying ordinary life. Purdy negotiates the bumpy terrain of responsibility loneliness dreams and estrangement in poems that often begin in the natural world and end with meditations on her place in the family landscape. Cover to cover STARLAND is a complex deeply felt and finely written book. -- Joyce Peseroff author of Know Thyself