Foxlogic, Fireweed

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"In her award-winning collection Foxlogic, Fireweed, Jennifer Sweeney draws a portrait of a life firmly rooted in its physical and spiritual realms even while it revels in the liminal spaces that can't always be explained with logic or reason."-Donna Vorreyer, Rhino Poetry "The logic of Foxlogic, Fireweed is human and humane; it's the logic of a penetrative tenderness and an embodiment always on the verge of dispersing into fox, or deer, or rain. . . . These are not bandwagon poems. They don't mug for the camera. Rather, they enact a love 'sourced in loneliness' where 'with our little keys of witness' we find each other-the very definition of the lyric poem."-Diane Seuss "In Jennifer K. Sweeney's beautiful new collection, poems serve as altars for the fierce hearts and fairytales that center our lives. . . . These poems recognize how sacred attention can be. In Foxlogic, Fireweed nothing escapes hiding and nothing escapes love."-Traci Brimhall "Foxlogic, Fireweed is a torn map of a state where all words are proximate to mystery. Venturing into terra incognita, into territory that might be anima mundi, maybe, reader, you think you know the lineaments, but they are altered. Altared. Yes, to dream space, but wilder, wider-this metal into bird, stone into air, mother into vulpine. Sweeney is breathing strangeness into a small body of words, and the expanses open exponentially."-Marsha de la O "The poems in Jennifer K. Sweeney's Foxlogic, Fireweed do the hard work of 'remaining in the perhaps.' Sweeney walks the many fine lines between introspection and observation, speaking plainly and singing. She finds moments of awe in the everyday, urging us to 'keep afraid what is fearful, hold what demands to be held.'"-Grace Bauer, author of Mean/Time