Hat on a Pond

By Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier)

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• The ones with the softest hearts divide
  Their time between nearly dead and almost alive.
  
  “Recalling at moments the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska, many of Wier’s colloquial stanzas draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence.”—Harvard Review

• Wier's exuberant poems often organize themselves as catalogues or lists—of actions, of things, of sights, of related adverbial phrases—so that any one poem in this thick, eclectic eighth book of verse can include almost anything.
  Publishers Weekly