Poetry. Gillian Wegener's first full-length book of poetry, THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE, delves deeply and tenderly into the territory of the everyday. With an eye tuned to the most delicate of details, she creates a world where the call of an unseen bird is as rich with meaning as the metallic crunch of an auto accident. Set against the background of California's Central Valley, this book of imagistic and thoughtful poems leads us to an often elusive realization: that home can be found in unexpected places. "In a characteristically authentic poem, Gillian Wegener gives us the soul masquerading as a butterfly. 'Attaching the wings is the easy part,' she begins, preparing us for flight that takes different shapes in poem after poem. Whatever her subject--the natural world animated again and again by birds--or daily human settings--Wegener soars, delivering beautiful, heartfelt vistas with her sure knowing sight"--Barbara Ras.

About the author: GILLIAN WEGENER works as a junior high English teacher in California's Central Valley and lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Runes, English Journal, americas review, and In the Grove. A chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other was published by In the Grove Press in 2001, and she was awarded a top prize by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation for 2006.