SLIP

Inventive and dynamic, Nicole Callihan' s fourth poetry collection, SLIP, navigates midlife with stick in hand and tongue in cheek. As Ellen Bass writes, Callihan ' turns recurrent obsessions like children, husband, mother, laundry, time, art, and body into poems of elastic syntax and shapes– – psalms, prose, lyric, narrative.' Whether looking back at her girlhood, counting out almonds, or singing herself (yet another) birthday song, Callihan' s luminous linguistics send us on an expansive journey. Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes raucous, these poems teach us how much can be held in a life and on the page.