Paulann Petersen

Understory: Poems Paulann Petersen

Here a reader encounters a voice steeped in the music of the English language, a voice intent on the musical possibilities of poetry's open and nonce forms. In these pages, one finds a voice indebted to the power of metaphor-the capacity of metaphor to transform both language itself and the way we humans see this world.

Oregon's sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen has five full-length books of poetry, including The Voluptuary.

"All poets draw on myth. In many of her poems, Paulann Petersen writes myth itself--stories and seeings so true you look again and again and they're truer." -John Daniel, author of Of Earth