You've Just Been Told Poems [Paperback]

Here, in Elizabeth Macklin's second collection, an only child's responses to the fait accompli of childhooddecisions already made, accidents of history and family, patterns presetcome to the adult mind in the presence of change and grief. The mind regroups as it can: later light on the hills of houses / before us / just as they are, as versus none. Elizabeth Macklin, whose poems have been described by