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They Sing to Her Bones
Joy Manesiotis

Foreword by Marianne Boruch

$12.00 trade paper
ISBN: 0-932826-87-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-932826-87-9
Publication Date: April, 2000

Winner of the 1999 New Issues Poetry Prize

Joy Manesiotis is a poet whose eye is generous as well as sensitive to the perfect detail – the "small glass beads," the "lit windows." Her vision relies on sound: the ear first catches "voices loosed across dusty paths" and the head then turns to them. It is this weaving of the senses, this consciousness, that makes Manesiotis' poems so easy to inhabit. The poet finds home in moments rather than places and lives in a kind of timelessness, as if everything she has ever touched still wraps itself around her.