When I Was Water

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Long-awaited fifth book of poems by award-winning novelist and poet Deena Linett. The new collection of poems by Deena Linett, whose Rare Earths, Woman Crossing a Field and TRANSLUCENT WHEN FIRED: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, raised her to prominence in recent decades. Each new book is an outpouring of lyric imagination and startling epiphanies. "Deena Linett's high lyric sensibility shines its dark lantern upon inevitable losses. What I treasure is the way that her poems can turn with a panther-like, predatory quickness from the beautiful to the terrible, all within the bounds of her skillfully deployed iambic line. She makes us see, hear, smell, and take delight in the places she travels through. We should be, she implicitly suggests, uber-tourists in our own extraordinary lives and see the world around us as if for the first time."--Donald. O. Platt, author of Tornadoesque Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies.