Poetry. A THIRST THAT'S PARTLY MINE explores the ways humans perceive and interact with a natural world that can seem both intimately connected to our concerns and yet profoundly unknowable. "In a difficult world, we readers of Liz Ahl's poems might wonder, with her unearthed spring toad, '...what any of us are supposed to do about any of it.' Perhaps these vivid and compassionate poems have the answer as they sweep human language over the endurance and beauty of what's creaturely here. Where species intersect, the result on the page is pure art. Brava, Liz Ahl, poet, observer, participant!"--Hilda Raz.

A Thirst That's Partly Mine

Literature & Fiction

Ahl, Liz

Poetry

Slapering Hol Press

Poetry. Volume XI of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series. "The title poem of Liz Ahl's brilliant collection, BEATING THE BOUNDS, investigates the ritual walking of the boundaries of a town every seven years. Ahl explores psychological and literal geographies, what it means to inhabit a space, and the beauties and mysteries she discovers there. . . . These dazzling poems draw us in to the vibrant spaces they mark and make." —Ann Hudson "I have been eagerly awaiting a full- length book of poems from this remarkable poet and Liz Ahl has delivered a stunner! In her beautifully realized collection, Ahl sets out 'to trace the contours / of the terrestrial constellations-the sets of lines / we name parish, town, body: all synonyms for home.' . . . And we are walking that path with her, marveling at the discernment and generosity of these poems, delighting in how they make the strange familiar and the familiar strange." —Karen McPherson "Witty, unsparing, Liz Ahl weds a keen understanding of rhetoric with a lush savoring of language's pleasures. I hunger for more." —Robin Becker "Growing up as a 'Navy Brat,' Liz Ahl long identified as the 'Woman from Away,' but in BEATING THE BOUNDS she embarks on the adventure of staying put in smalltown New England." —Grace Bauer

Beating the Bounds

Hobblebush Books

Liz Ahl's second full-length collection contemplates grieving and the quests for solace that guide - for better and for worse - living in the face of loss. The losses in this book - of life, of health, of ways of thinking - create absences in which poems seek balance between what is lost and what remains.

A Case for Solace

Lily Poetry Review Books

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A Thirst That's Partly Mine

Beating the Bounds

A Case for Solace