"Judy Katz is a brilliant poet. Her work is luminous and transparent as a mountain lake, and under the surface--the complexities: Katz is a storyteller who examines how we use stories to smuggle ourselves into the future, how the images we forge of each other conceal us--"sometimes the wide open space of you gone/is all it takes to let the whole world in." These poems are hauntingly spiritual, but it's not a performative spirituality that finds answers in peak experience: it's the intuition that breathtaking questions are braided into the weaving and unweaving of our lives. The voice is so alive, often so playful--and again and again, you will find yourself in a dialogue with the unknowable. Poems like "The Last Five Minutes" are dazzling. How News Travels is a stunning book." -- D. Nurse
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