Sentences and Rain

Equi’s] writing is both fluid and agile; there’s a free-flowing quality to it but also a sense of composed wit. Equi’s collection is an unabashed celebration of the pleasures of language.” —Harvard Crimson “If you can imagine it, you can probably find it here in one of Equi’s lists of objects both real and surreal.” —Library Journal "On every page of Sentences and Rain, Elaine Equi’s latest collection of poetry, you will find . . . pages thrumming with the activity of an original imagination.” —KGB Bar Lit Magazine “These spare yet elegant poems are electric, suave, and original. Equi so ably demonstrates a purity of sensibility coupled with peerless brilliance that we are left breathless as we read.” —The Journal (West Virginia) “If there is a secret joy informing Equi’s poetry, it is in the way she accepts the world as it is, without quarrel and without illusions except those that are sanctioned by art. Like a still-life specialist she gets you to see not only the red flesh of the watermelon but the beauty of the black seeds on it.” —Best American Poetry