Echolalia [Paperback]

The language and cadence--fractured, whizzing--of our most wired new century lives in [her poems] though Bernhardt's subjects are ancient: love and family, ache and hope, remorse and grief worked out in memory and right now, that dazzling look-at-this. And I did. I kept coming back to look at and through these poems, both solaced and unnerved by their energy and wit and darkness, their patience--even given their great restlessness--the meticulous care in which they were made, the ghosts of Bishop, Dickinson, Cummings, Hopkins here by name and spirit, how be they transformed, flooded, rekindled, all so oddly cherished. Welcome this poet, this very original eye and ear and heart. --Marianne Boruch

DEBORAH BERNHARDT has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She lives in Wisconsin, where she teaches English.

Scanning with the Eye Text Tiding Her Lost Draft Landscaping Happy Living! A Guidebook for Brides Latin Roots Sui and Cidium The herafter Has Been modified as Follows The Kiss Fractal looking for Delights There Is no Towards What Lisa Thinks Death and Saucepan Sleep Patters Replacing a Threshold End of Spell The Urge to Say The Only Universal Tongue Sometimes a Septum Almost Deviates Lethal Temple Grandin's Squeeze Machine Cancer Has Not Seeded-- Diary Made out of Sixes To Lisa: We Descend from Worried Mothers Sonnets after Joel Meyerowitx Asks Our Question Reconstruction with Original Fragments Apology Is Red up Like This: Fax to E.E. Cummings Notes