Slowly, Slowly, Horses

"Julianne Buchsbaum's Slowly, Slowly, Horses is a quietly furious book. her language is as rich and eerily fascinating as bending down to look closely at something decomposing. But this is a different sort of nature poetry--her landscape is "a pasture of taints," and her close observation of language, of course, is close observation of the human mind. There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction, and in the way her descriptions are simultaneously direct and mythical." --Matthew Rohrer