Natural Affinities
Erica Funkhouser
Funkhouser deliberately chooses commonplace and ordinary objects (fish scales, the blue in beets, paper clips) to display her altogether uncommon
vision...Repeatedly she challanges seemingly prosaic matters to give up their secrets."
—ALA Booklist
"Erica Funkhouser's poetry is based on a vision of correspondences and affinities in the natural world. She always reads confidently and easily...she has a
real feel for seeing and describing the poetry resident in the world around her."
—Publishers Weekley
about the author
Erica Funkhouser is the author of four collections of poetry, including Pursuit (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), The Actual World (1997), and Sure Shot and Other Poems (1993). Her poems have been published in numerous magazines and literary journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She has also worked as a playwright. She recieved a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
