Poetry. "Like Seurat's Grande Jatte, Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique and Stein's Stanzas in Meditation, Dara Wier's Reverse Rapture is a mosaic whose colossal proportions contradict the mundane character of its countless self-contained tesserae. It may not be for the faint of heart--most intense experiences aren't--but those who stay with it will find themselves face to face with a world whose eerily sharp focus suggests recent satellite photographs of Mars. And they will never be the same again"--John Ashbery. Wier is the author of nine collections of poetry, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Author City: AMHERST, MA USA

Dara Wier is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently REMNANTS OF HANNAH (Wave Books, 2006) and REVERSE RAPTURE (Verse Press, 2005). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, and she has taught at numerous universities and conferences throughout the country. Wier is on the permanent faculty of the University of Massachusetts Program for Poets & Writers.