Before Our Eyes - (Princeton Contemporary Poets) by Eleanor Wilner (Paperback)

Before Our Eyes is a comprehensive collection of Eleanor Wilner's distinguished body of work, featuring over 30 new poems and representative selections from her previous books.

This major new volume showcases Wilner's unique ability to engage with history in lyrical language, creating worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one.

In these poems, well-known figures step out of old texts to alter their stories, and new figures arise out of the local air - a girl with a fury of bees in her hair, homesick statues that step down from their pedestals, and more.

Wilner's poetry naturalizes ancient myths while mythologizing nature in the service of life, offering a powerful way to resist falsity, seek meaning, and really see what is before our eyes.

With widely anthologized works like "Sarah's Choice" and "Reading the Bible Backwards," this collection is a must-read for poetry lovers and anyone seeking inspiration in these bewildering times.