Turneresque

Turneresque by Elizabeth Willis. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781886224629.

Poetry. A long-awaited new title from Elizabeth Willis, who was born in 1961 in Awali, Bahrain and grew up primarily in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She currently teaches at Wesleyan University after teaching for many years at Mills College in Oakland. "Nothing is moving but me: Im a blackbird. The neighbors in labor, but so am I, pushing against the road. Physics tells us nothing is lost, but Ive been copping time from death and cant relent for every job the stars drop on my back"-from "September 9". SPD also carries THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, SECOND LAW, and A/O by Elizabeth Willis.