Blue Vivarium

Whenever William Stafford was asked for his definition of poetry, which was all the time, he would always give the same answer: “Poetry is a journey of discovery.” In her fourth collection, Blue Vivarium, Carol Alexander invites us to join her as she continues her own unique journey of discovering, via the richness and dazzling skill of her language and craft, both the worlds within ourselves as well as our place in the natural world around us. We will go where “verbs and cells collide,” to arrive at the place where we will “map the sparse archipelago, toward a vanishing point.”

—J.R. Solonche