Straits & Narrows: Poems (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)

Sidney Wade continues to showcase her talents as a poet of potent play in this buoyant sixth collection. Oftentimes reminiscent of the work of Marianne Moore, these striking new poems--rustic, reflective, and typically set lakeside--are limber and unbelievably lean, quick as bubbling brooks, and packed with whimsy and wisdom in equal measure.