Poetry. This lovely book of poems, written in Woodstock, New York, carries inspiration from various places. Prefaced by "12 Poems That Were Never Written," the book is divided into three sections, "Natural Megaron," "Preposition Poems" and "Lung Poems," corresponding to three distinctive methods Radfar used to write her way into time and space: settling down with her journal on a hilly overlook after a 30-minute walk; removing prepositions while still managing to talk about her relation to space; writing at a fixed time in the middle of the night. In going as far as she can in each of these disparate directions, she summons, with a surprising degree of certitude, a sense of how this specific place once affected her writing and her life.

Author City: SANTA MONICA, CA USA

India Hixon Radfar, poet and former resident of Woodstock, New York, has resettled in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Bernard, where they continue to raise their son, Aram, and their daughter, Leila, amidst an extended Persian family.