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Today's poem is "Refrain"
from Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air

Parlor Press

Elizabeth Jacobson is also the author of Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books) and two chapbooks, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone (dancing girl press). She is the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project, a not-for-profit which conducts poetry classes in community shelters in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Orion Magazine, Ploughshares, Plume, Taos Journal of Poetry, The American Journal of Poetry, Terrain, The Miami Rail, Vox Populi, and other literary journals. She has an MFA from Columbia University.

Books by Elizabeth Jacobson:

Other poems on the web by Elizabeth Jacobson:
"Landscape with Ordinary Things"
"Dear Basho,"
Two poems
"Next to You, Permanence"
"Quantum Foam"
"Here is a Pilgrim on a Waterless Shore"
"Girl"
"Blood Moon"
"TMI"

Elizabeth Jacobson's Website.

About Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air:

"Over the past few years, Elizabeth Jacobson has become one of my favorite American poets. Her work is original, deep, serious, and sensuous in ways that surprise me repeatedly. In the way of true inquiry, Jacobson's poems unearth genuinely new feelings and knowledge in a clean, mature and fully achieved style. These poems carry heavy water, fetched from deep nature, in human hands. I love this book."
—Tony Hoagland

"This wild, remarkable book begins in painstaking definition, via what isn't—to strange and dazzling discoveries of the natural world, to instinct and melancholia and surprise. This poet wanders through a range of poetic architecture—an eight-sectioned poem which begins with a woman removing her body parts, epistolary poems, prose poems, small strange lyrics of love and bewilderment. Genuine curiosity fuels this book and (can we bear it?) a true savoring of the world. Elizabeth Jacobson starts in clarity and ends in mystery, two points of imaginative departure. Beware and rejoice: this is how a very original brain thinks itself into poems."
—Marianne Boruch

"Snakes, birds, insects, and all manner of strange encounters: Elizabeth Jacobson is a true observer immersed in the natural world. These poems arise out of a deep questioning; they are puzzles, tangled road maps we can't help but follow. It takes some wisdom to abide, as Jacobson's work does, so effortlessly in paradox. I am moved to wonder, to breathe and slow down, experiencing how, as she says—the whole world is in me. Through her love of the particular a great expanse opens within us. These are the poems we need and long for right now."
—Anne Marie Macari



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