Once It Stops

Poetry. Rarely is a debut collection described as "fearless," "the real deal," showing "voracious intelligence"—especially when the poet has reached 80 years. Florence Fogelin's lyric poetry, informed by a "nomad's telescope," focuses on desire and mortality, marriage and place. Like "stone masons chipping at perplexity," she crafts a journey—from Vermont to Sicily, from tearing down a boathouse to talking with Sappho on a NYC subway—finding "the eternal hope seen in every graveyard" while "doubting the existence of guardrails."