A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle over the River Arno

A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arnocarries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader's first two collections,Living ThingsandMiraculous Hours. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human. Wildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader's unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers those mapped for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadowlines we ourselves draw in order to test their validity. If Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, it might look like these poems. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.