Poetry. CAMERA LYRICA navigates the intersection between realism and naturalism, locating moment by momentthe only way it canthe artful, necessary, and always mysterious transformation that occurs between the perceiver and perceived. Amy Newmans subjects range from Audubons drive for precision, Michelangelos unfinished Piet, Darwin and forty-year old Barbie, to a meditation on the diversity of Type itself. With grace and dexterity, her intelligent eye dips into Catholic Mysteries, and the quiet but momentous domesticity of a backyard quince tree. Hers is a language both lush and spare, as she filters it and the world through a lucid imagination, transforming both into something beautiful, challenging, and wholly new. "Newman's genius is of a particular and urgent understanding: i.e., that we are summoned, by Nature and by Language, not merely to continue but to begin worlds. Thus, beautifully, she avows the extraordinariness of everything seen, avowing equally the tender newborn flesh of everything said. The Eden of her alphabet is new, is open"—Donald Revell.