Turneresque
Elizabeth Willis
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Elizabeth Willis' third (that I've found to date) full-length work is just as gorgeous and surprising as her previous book, The Human Abstract. Willis is one of the few poets who can actually pull off the prose poem and make it sound like more than a short-short story:
"Doctors sculpt a monster to disprove everything. Scaling mountains, she forgives herself the climbs of youth. Nothing can stop her dark mouth. She governs boys carelessly. You can't forge her dazzle. She stars all the time. Acts accrue against her inner caning. She lifts and shoots in furs, criming her way to newness, men...." (from "A Woman's Face")
An amazing book from an amazing writer. Elizabeth Willis deserves to be far, far better-known than she is now; pick up Turneresque (and The Human Abstract, while you're at it) and help spread the word.
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