New poetry from "One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry" (from Library Journal). With graduate poet Rachel Beck. Swensen's poetry is filled with delicate and precise illuminations. The ordinary things to which the poet turns her gaze are revealed to be astonishing, full of the withheld, or at least the under-observed. In her newest collection, The Glass Age (Alice James Books, 2006), she explores the perceptive space of the transparent-- of glass-- revealing, as John Ashbery puts it that "seeing is believing sometimes, but believing is almost always seeing." Her poetry is described as scholarly, meticulous, daring, assured, thoughtful--and like the reflective and penetrable...

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