Poetry. LOCAL HISTORY, Erica Hunt's first book, is the product of over a decade of intensive engagement with poetry by a writer published in some of the most innovative anthologies of the time: In the American Tree, boundary 2, Poetics Journal, The Politics of Poetic Form, and Talking Poetics from the Naropa Institute. Hunt's resonant and elegant reworking of prose as a form of poetry reflects her social commitment to an ethical writing practice that exuberantly interrogates its own expressive potentialities. A new poet demands new readers. Hunt's poetry, it seems to me, demands a new public - Charles Bernstein.