Jane Augustine’s Traverse appears in the What Sparks Poetry feature on Poetry Daily. Read the poem Metaphysics followed by the review by Susan Tichy.
One of the joys of Autumn has been wandering the nearly 700 pages of Jane Augustine’s Traverse: Collected Poems 1969 to 2019. Paradoxically filled with Augustine’s light touch, brief lines, and white-space silences, the volume manages to be both monumental and warmly open, crossing what Andrew Schelling has called the “wry vernacular” of Objectivism with a woman’s intimate eye.
