Foxglovewise

<p><b>The UK debut of a celebrated American poet whose work is as lyrical as it is radical.<br></b><br><i>Foxglovewise</i> is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep histories: ‘Where do stargazers go in a city of light?’ Mlinko takes us from a Scottish cemetery to a mangrove in Florida via a supercell storm in Texas. Along the way, her use of form and rhyme is as light as it is enlightening as she probes our all-too-human nature and pays careful attention to the quiet marvels to be found by looking carefully at right where we happen to be.<br><br>‘Mlinko is rarely less than dazzling thanks to the pleasure and rigor of her phrasing. . . layered, allusive, and intelligent poems. . . . There is a moving and unignorable sense of grief and loss beneath the surface, in an expertly managed balance with the luster of the vocabulary and music of these poems.’ <i>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</i><br><br>‘Mlinko delivers again on the promise of a richly rewarding smorgasbord of sound, image, feeling, and thought.’ Diego Báez, <i>Booklist</i><br><br>‘Image-rich [with] densely discursive textures [...] This is a big and imposing book, worldly wise but warmly open and giving.’ David Wheatley, <i>Guardian, Best Recent Poetry</i></p>