Epicenter, Poems by Wendy Wisner

Epicenter

Poems by Wendy Wisner

"Wendy Wisner's assured first book finds at the core of family both unease and tenderness. Her best poems possess a strange interiority that makes them feel lit from within."
—Mark Doty

"I am thrilled and moved by Wendy Wisner's Epicenter. I want to invent new words to herald the emergence of this wonderful young poet. She is delicate, but never dainty; she is exquisitely sensitive to the nuances of feeling that constitute our inner life, but never hermetic. These poems, one after the other, take my breath away and give breath back to me. What a great gift this book is."
—Jan Heller Levi

"It's a compelling, confiding, sometimes awe-struck voice that speaks through these poems. A woman at moments of discovery, surprised at what she has found. These poems are tender and unwavering, erotic in the largest sense of the word — in love with the world, with pennies and record players, tablecloths, and cell-phone chargers. Lyrical, interior, grounded in the beauties and struggles of daily life, family life, Epicenter is a thrilling, heartbreaking first book of poems."
—Donna Masini

"Wendy Wisner's candor is startling, tender, authentic...Her tolerance for the varying ambiguities of fate—another way of saying 'courage'—greatly enrich the poet's observations."
—William Pitt Root