Jeanne Marie Beaumont Rebecca Reynolds is that rare type of poet， a sensous philosopher. Each poem in this luminous collection discovers， that is， breaks through to new perceptions， new paths of thinking， new ways of saying. Reynolds creates rich， deftly stratified poems of memory， cognition， and feeling that are as transformative of the language as they are transportive for the reader. These poems are victories over the ordinary， the easy， the dulled， and excel at doing what we need poetry to do-- they awaken， resuscitate. Cynthia Hogue Rebecca Reynolds' stunning first collection constantly surprises and delights with its taut meditations. Never glib， Reynolds is by turns lucid， lyrical， reflectively ironic， wittily bittersweet-- a frequency/ fixed in the complex (The Naive Bones). Daughter of the Hangnail presents us with a brilliant new voice that can't be missed. See all Editorial Reviews