Changing Faces
Betsy Sholl
"...Antonio Machado used to say the capacity for wonder is the source of true poetry, and this is the magical ingredient I find in Betsy Sholl... All, or almost
all, of Sholl's poems are coming from a center whose discipline of attention (in a spiritual sense) and discipline of language coincide. This means she is
working... where the richest ore lies."
—Luis Ellicott Yglesias, New Boston Review
"The collection is distinctly Anerican, the language, the voice, the way she sets her private dreams and memories against a flat indifferent landscape...The poems sing a familiar song, but the particulars are her own, without self-pity or excessive egoism."
—Fanny Howe
about the author
Betsy Sholl is Poet Laureate of Maine. Her many books of poetry include The Red Line, which won the 1991 Associated Writing Programs' award series in poetry, and Don't Explain, which won the University of Wisconsin's Felix Pollak Prize. Her newest book, Late Psalm, is out from the University of
Wisconsin Press. Other awards include an NEA Fellowship and a Maine State Writers' Grant. Sholl teaches at the University of Southern Maine, and in the Vermont College M.F.A. Program, and has been poet-in-residence at Bucknell University.
also by betsy sholl: appalachian winter and rooms overhead
