Bonfire

" Bonfire is a passionate, controlled book by an extraordinary poet. First is evident the lucidity of intelligence; then the radiance; and finally the sheer power."-Josephine Jacobsen "From deep places, these poems allow things to well up: memory, love, fear, and a sense of how our individual natures belong to the same great nature which keeps pushing life forward out of death. . . . In 'Lot's Wife' and other poems, Gilbert reinvents mythology, bringing it closer to the realities we recognize."-Alicia Ostriker