Annie Finch is author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism, most recently Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreamjs and The Body of Poetry. Her book of poetry Calendars was shortlisted for the Fore Word Magazine Poetry Book of the year Award and in 2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award. She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast, the low residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine.<BR><BR>Annie Finch's brilliance as a young poet lies in her view of the world as complex her passionate examinations of family relationships, of family history, of the search to understand one's place in the world are underpinned by a syntax and a poetic design equally passionate and complex. This is a formidable first volume of poetry.-Molly Peacock<BR><BR>Annie Finch has given us a book rich in experience, women's history, memory and form. She has made form a one eyed woman looking out at us all, beckoning us to enter into her arena and be.-Sonia Sanehez<BR><BR>Here is a poetry where a physical sense of the world and of spoken language gather force and energy from formal mastery. The cadences and patterns of Annie Finch's Eve feel like they have summoned and commanded form, not the reverse---which is a way of saying that this is a genuine poetry-Robert Pinsky<BR><BR>I have read Eve with delight and amazement....I feel I know why Finch is so firmly a formalist; she is a little mad, and the forms help contain the madness. I'd give a great deal to have more of that madness myself.-Carolyn Kizer