Goest
Goest, sonorous with a hovering “ghost” which shimmers at the root of all things, is a stunning meditation—even initiation—on the act of seeing, proprioception, and the alchemical properties of light as it exists naturally and inside the human realm of history, lore, invention and the “whites” of painting.  Light becomes the true mistress and possibly the underlying language of all invention.  Swensen’s poetry documents a penetrating “intellectus”—light of the mind—by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent.    —Anne Waldman --Review