Lines Out

the long version

“The poems are lucid, moving, and their open-throated singing comes straight at the reader from a whole heart and a passionate intelligence.” —Thomas Lux “Here’s a long overdue first collection bound to gladden anybody who cares for poems rich in sense and sensibility. Rosenmeier is a brilliant musician of ideas who advances the traditions of earlier American poets, yet achieves work rooted in her time and place, distinctively her own.” —X. J. Kennedy