Well Then There Now
Spahr's fifth book of imaginative writing (both poems and prose) should be a blockbuster, a lasting disturbance; a work of crisp wit, bizarre conjunctions and ultimately enduring moral authority; it is also the best, and perhaps the most widely accessible, thing that Spahr has done. --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewHer poems seem particularly vital at the moment not just for the pleasure inherent in their forms of language, but also for the challenge posed by their focus on community. Spahr tests and rejects any separation between intimate passion and general policy. In her poems, love does not resist the world beyond; love lets it in. --Los Angeles Review of BooksAcross mountains and oceans, Juliana Spahr spins her original upbringing into a fine assortment of poetry. --Midwest Book Review