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 Cover illustration: Transfigurations 2000.15 by Luc Leestemaker Author Photo by Emmett Martin
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Praise for The Shifting Line:
“The line in Chelsea Rathburn’s exceptionally fine and promising THE SHIFTING LINE is not only the line of love, traced unflinchingly through its lucid confusions and murky clarities, but also the deeply human pulse of feeling and forms – both metrical and amatory – composed from the dissonance of a fully lived life. A remarkable debut.”
– B.H. Fairchild
“I have read Chelsea Rathburn’s poetry with increasing pleasure. Her sense of line, her images – as clear and fresh as if she’d drawn them on a tablet with a pencil while I read and watched, her inventive and often ironic rhymes, the building of extraordinary poems out of ordinary language, and especially the resolutions that make it almost impossible not to nod at the end of the poem, all make this a collection to keep on call.”
– Miller Williams
“First books by young poets are sometimes praised as showing great promise, and this one does; but in its distinctive marriage of form and feeling, The Shifting Line is also a remarkable accomplishment. I am happy to have read and reread these poems, and for the new readers who will discover their pleasures.”
– Catherine Tufariello
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