Thinking Eye, The eBook

Jennifer Atkinsons The Thinking Eye, her fifth collection, looks at the syntax of our living, evolving world, paying close attention to the actual quartz and gnats, the goats and iced-over, onrushing rivers. The poems also look at the looking itselfhow places and lives become landscapes and the ways the lenses of language, art, ecology, myth, and memoryenlarge and focus our seeing. If its true, as Gaston Bachelard says, that whether a poet looks through a telescope or a microscope, [she] sees the same thing, then what Atkinson sees is an earth filled with violence and beauty, human malice and ten thousand separate moments of joy. Clearly in love with the earth and the (English) languageall those inter-dependent lives and formsAtkinson pays attention to both with a Bishoppy eye, a Hopkinsy ear, and an ecopoets conscience. Behind the books sharp images and lush music creaks Chernobyls rusty Ferris wheel.