Poetry. In HOUSE MADE OF SILVER, Robinson uses spare, elegant language to explore spiritual themes in a manner evocative of the compressed intensity of Emily Dickinson. Within the architecture of daily domestic scenes, a complex world is revealed to the reader. As with "condensation on that vessel that was not a glass" or "maps sewn with leaves," Robinson sculpts intricate and interior spaces. "The delicacy of these poems replicates the quality of their insights—insights too shattering and celestial to be uttered any other way. These are swift, verdidical, winged images of the side beside the other side"—Fanny Howe.

Author City: Boulder, CO USA

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several books of poetry, including THREE NOVELS (Omnidawn, 2011), ALSO KNOW AS (Apogee Press, 2009), THE ORPHAN & ITS RELATIONS (Fence Books, 2008), INAUDIBLE TRUMPETERS (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008), UNDER THAT SILKY ROOF (Burning Deck Press, 2006), and APPREHEND, the 2003 winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. She was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Robinson has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2008 Grants to Artists Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches at Naropa University.