Poetry. In her second collection, ONE ABOVE AND ONE BELOW, Belieu again seduces her readers with a precise and delicious language. As she tries to make sense out of what constitutes the truest self, she ranges from the elegiac horizon of the Great Plains to an equally open embrace of a more frenzied, cosmopolitan world. Whether angry or humorous, formal or free, Belieu's poems "dive and soar," gathering an exhilirating, exquisite momentum.