Getaway Girl (Salt Modern Poets)
"In this collection, Terry Ann Thaxton holds the reader hostage, and sets her free at the same time, in poems that walk the line between pure tension and pure festival, terror and recreation, anxiety and beauty, and always with sure steps, perfect timing, uncanny musical intuition.  InGetaway Girlwe are introduced to a poet  who brings the world to us in eerie clarity, giving mystery and the spirit their full due while staying firmly grounded in the gritty details of a life.  "Let me demand//a vase as a sequel to myself." Terry  Ann Thaxton has given us the vase, and the self, and a whole new way of  looking at this world in her remarkable, unforgettable, poetry collection. " --Laura Kasischke "InGetaway GirlTerry Ann Thaxton enters the haunted threshold territory between past and present. In these lyric narratives she explores how and why we stray  so irresistibly to that place. Despite the harrowing circumstances of the poet's childhood and early adulthood, despite the absolute necessity  for escape, there's a paradoxical longing to be found, to recover "the lost openings of my life," echoed beautifully in the empty carapace of a  box turtle, fishcrows crying for shore, the unsent letter of a remembered voice ... .  Thaxton is a poet of nature, but first and foremost she is a poet of remarkable imagination.  This is an authentic,  marvelous first collection. " --Nancy Eimers