More Here Than Light
Christie, Av
Poetry. A.V. Christie's posthumously assembled, intriguingly titled MORE HERE THAN LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a deeply satisfying memorial to the work of a poet whose poems I have always loved for their bright inventiveness, the muscular buoyancy of their language, their habits of thought, and their engagement with the world. Despite the knowledge of her own mortally challenged life, of having to persist in what she calls the chiaroscuro o...