Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010.
The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps. Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book."--J. D. McClatchy, author of Mercury Dressing: Poems, judge Storm and Stress That a spider web supports a bead of rain is as significant as rain's resolve, poised where some spinneret has pitched its threads aslant, since, held or holding, each endures a strain-- one presses, one reacts. Don't ask me what it's worth. Despite the facts of matter's favored states, such concentration's of no consequence beyond this life, a net tailored to break, too late for recompense when weight evaporates.
