as a flock of goats
by Liana Quill
AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, a collection of poems in miniature, negotiates the strange terrains of promise, space, longing, and origins. Using just a few painterly strokes, Quill culls images from the bank of mythological memory and arranges them in breathtaking compositions to an elusive, haunting effect. A pioneering force in poetry, Quill folds the slightest physical impressions to refract vatic proportions.
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Liana Quill’s first book, Fifty Poems, was chosen for the 2010 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms, jubilat, blackbird, and elsewhere. A native Virginian, she received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She currently lives and works in the Pioneer Valley.