Genetics

JackLeg Press"Maureen Seaton's register is enormous, her verbal daring and wayfaring breathtaking, while the solidity of her skill- whether in renewing received prosody or in formal invention-underpins a worldview that might otherwise be vertiginously frightening. She writes so much that has not yet been written, that has needed utterance in poetry or prose-about violence and eroticism, about women's desire, about the intersection of emotions, mathematics and history-and she writes it indelibly. Read it and weep; read it and wonder; read it and gasp; read it and open your own notebook-but read it."-Marilyn Hacker"...Maureen Seaton displays inventiveness and a touching vulnerability. This is poetry with sweep, quick wit, and a harrowing accuracy of feeling."-Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology"All too often American poets handle English too carefully, as if our language were some kind of sickly child. In such poetry only the first gear of consciousness gets any real wear. Maureen Seaton's poetry, with its swift zigs and unpredictable associations, is a sumptuous reminder that language should be throttled beyond safe speeds, that the mind is not a tricycle but a vehicle designed precisely for mad risks and amazing recoveries."-Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock.