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Thoughtful and passionate poetry with just the right amount of neurosis. Fox’s poems are like quiet meteors because they are more than one thing at a time. In the poem “Impossibilities” — which is about magic and love (it’s always about love), about synchronicity and also man-made elements versus the natural world — this seemingly trivial line holds so much truth and weight for me, maybe because I feel it too:



“Look at that bird!” I say, struck and wishing /

I knew more Latin, more names to call the world by (p. 34).



Because isn’t that really what poetry is? Naming the world? Fox’s poetry names both the outer world and the inner world — poems on anxiety and depression alongside poems on extinction and litter — with language like odes and songs. I am so happy about this book by local poet Lizzy Fox!

These books come signed by the author!