The Jitters

Poetry. There's a beautiful epigraph that invites us into THE JITTERS: '...am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?' The jitters, the junk, the pain, the fortitude to remain here as 'a new creature /... brave enough / to be wounded.' Anne Cecelia Holmes has the courage to say carefully, and measure shrewdly; to sing sadly, and sing boldly. To paraphrase her: hold your breath, read this book. Her poems don't flinch or back away from our darkest thoughts.--Dara Wier