Barbara Schott peels back the layers of language to reveal the impact of time and seasonal changes. She also peels back the ideology of relations, the intimacy of self, to find both great longing and loss. The poet identifies how the heart longs for words, shapes itself with words. This collection of new poems offers the reader the rare opportunity to stand still and be enveloped in the greatness of language and verse.
“Barbara Schott’s poetics of abandonment and possession offer us a vision of (and a listening to) what is left over when the elegiac moment has passed. The lover who is neither muse nor prey follows desire’s branching littoral narrative, dissolving each crystalline thought in water while singing her fiercely mournful blues. These poems are sensual and heat-seeking yet utterly, icily, precise.”
– Meira Cook
