Spinoza in Her Youth

These rich and rigorous poems delight in and disrupt the framing structures of language, memory, and history, so as to inhabit new fluencies of possibility. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter, while addressing concerns that emphasize the emotional, the political, and the philosophic, these poems all demonstrate a lyric integrity that is as responsive to the gravity of experience as it is to the pleasure one can find through the means of representing it.