Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom

The poems in this third book by Norah Pollard display the wild joy and savage despair that mark her earlier books. The poet revels in the physicality of the animal world she finds in man and beast; she also suffers the anguish of loss and death, especially that of her beloved brother. Like her father, Seabiscuit's jockey, Norah Pollard rides the wild currents of a world that takes her where it will, takes her dangerously and deleriously.