Swarm Lure

Poetry. "This is writing of high intelligence and an architectural sense of structure. The title series, `swarm lure,' takes as its occasion the language of Italian beekeeping. Like Montale's `The Pledge,' constructed of motets, each section is a movement in time and presence, a part of the whole comb. This is poetry that can `cry the wagon and its horse tightly up a mountain,' which is to say it matters"--Paul Hoover. "Lure over lore tumbling, head over heels, image and prosody, Laura Walker translates the lushness of fragment. Her poems--hungry, bewildered--are incarnated on memory's body, her mysterious gesture "writing recipes on our arms"--Elizabeth Robinson.