Annie Finch’s poetry emboldens the spirit and enlightens the soul, offering the listener a journey like no other.
Jeffrey Cantrell
An oracle, an ecstatic maenad: that is the kind of traditional poet Annie Finch is. Finch, at the forefront of the re-evaluation of traditional form in poetry, uses poetic structures to distract monkey mind so that wild mind sings through. . . she finds rhyme and meter rooted in the oral tradition with its pagan proletarian values. She takes back the master’s tools by remembering that they were, from the first, tools of the common folk
Patricia Monaghan, author of The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Annie Finch understands better than any contemporary I know what poetry feels like and sounds like when it is completely at home in its traditions. . . She is a major poet, one of very few who understand how lyric lives in part because it can speak for something larger than the ego.
Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
In words that soar but are never obscure, Annie Finch tells of Goddesses who have returned offering threads of meaning with which to weave our lives anew. Sing to us, dear Muse.
Carol P. Christ, author of Rebirth of the Goddess
Annie Finch’s poems are at once a continuation and a critique of the plural traditions from which they are drawn, a commentary on the seductive and treacherous–and redemptive–qualities of language itself.
Marilyn Hacker
Annie Finch’s poetry is a pure tone that calls us home to the first impulse of poetry. We link to mystery. We lift off.
Joy Harjo