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Esta Spalding's Anchoress is a rare book by an important young voice in North American poetry, altogether uncommon in its profundity and breadth of realised ambition. Spalding has written a 20th-century epic, addressing the infinitude of human responsibility in an interwoven lyric narrative in which orphaned daughters recuperate their collective past, and stand toward the future with a fierce measure of salvific will and moral conscience...we hear the story of our time: the waste of Europe's seed, the inexorable intwinement of history, love, politics and ethics, culminating in an act too terrible and pure to comprehend, imagined by a poet of formidable early gifts. -- Carolyn Forche
Awake before dawn a year after Helen's death, Peter begins to assemble memories of his lover. But how to conjure the dead? How to put a lover's body together again? In his laboratory Peter is restoring the skeleton of a whale. But in his notebook, he scrawls pieces of Helen's story and of their story together. Slowly, he begins to see the secret tunnels between Helen's death and the deaths of her parents, between Helen's loyalty to her sister and her passion for right action. A sensual, haunting book-length poem by a highly original Canadian writer, Anchoress moves gracefully from the painted caves of Vichy France where Helen's mother is born, to the banks of the Seine where her parents meet; from a foster home in Illinois to the greystone university buildings where Helen becomes obsessed with the televised events of the Gulf War. This remarkable book challenges the way we think about the boundaries between politics and passion, war and love, fiction and poetry.
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