Reverse Rapture

Wier is well-known in New England and New York, and this departure from her previous books should draw extensive critical attention. Wier teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wier is a former director of the AWP (Associated Writing Programs). Sections from the book have/will appear in: APR, jubilat, Volt, and other magazines. Wier will teach at Hollins College (Roanoke, VA) in Spring 2005 as a visiting chair in the English Department.

Interconnected poems in voices of a band of explorers. An epic of memory, hope and questioning.Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of everything, these explorers, and the poems recounting their adventures, create a gorgeous lyrical web filled with new ways of seeing. Dara Wier is the author of eight previous collections of poems, most recently Hat on a Pond and Voyages in English. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The American Poetry Review, she teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.