Letters to an Albatross

`No ideas but in things.' In lieu of abstraction and sentimentality, Anita Mohan presents `real gardens' with real apperceptions in them. More inlooker than onlooker, she enlivens the flora and fauna of this volume with her being-in-the-landscape. In the mind's ear one can hear Stevens' beachcombing siren for whom, `there never was a world, except the one she sang and, singing, made.' These pietorial love songs are the work of an imposingly august imagination.---Steven Felicelli, author of Notes Towards A Monograph of `The Moment'

Letters To an Albatross is a lush crosscurrent of peculiarly fine poetry. Her poems are as playful as they are crucial, whimsical and heartbreaking in a wide drifting landscape. Moving with a purpose her language circles "and then the fleet of rays fly/Past the drifting panga, lifting / Shining wide wings / Through the ancient face of water/Like golden sails." Her poems embody a ceaseless spirit in a work of great beauty and force, of intelligence and stark humility. This is a wonderful, relevant book of poetry.---Geoffrey Gatza, author of Kenmore: Poem Unlimited and Not So Fast Robespierre