<DIV><p>"This anti-elegy, both reverent and funny, anticipates the funny reverence that Wier finds, makes up, and sustains throughout her decades of subsequent writing."?<I>Jacket Magazine</I></p><p>Dara Wier's loose sonnets insist on a living language in the face of death, cycling and vibrant as the water that runs through them.</p><p><I>. . . Assigned to<BR>Adventure said the motto on our buttons. The last thing we knew<BR>Before we left with our satchels concerned how love withdraws<BR>Moving backward taking with it everything, our names, this way.</I></p><p><B>Dara Wier</B> directs the MFA program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is her ninth book, and first new collection of poetry since 2006.</p><BR></DIV>