Cloisters

Poetry. Kristin Bock's first published collection of poetry, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, highlights her intriguingly spare, economical verse. Her lines are subliminally infused with gothic imagery and visceral insights. She is compellingly original, and each poem is liberally seasoned with shrewd observations and raw, emotional truths. Poetry comes unbidden and it comes by design, with desire. Bock's book catches poetry as it holds our attention so that we remember why we go looking for what poetry offers in the first place. I love this book's adamant attentions and unashamed ardors. When she writes, `And who records such things?' we know it is, for one, the poet who's written CLOISTERS--Dara Wier.