Mischa Willett

A Testament of Witnesses and Other Poems

Arts & Literature

“Readers will be staggered at how much scholarship and good humor, how much formal dexterity and easy cadence, they find in these poems. A Testament of Witnesses is startling, aloft, and all of it singing an otherworldly glory.”

City Nave

Arts & Literature

“The poems in City Nave twist and slither off the page, never still, ablaze one breath and ashen the next, here admonishing, there searching, always, like a Phoenix, fiery, always re-birthing.”

Forbearance

Arts & Literature

“In lines taut as a drum or the stakes of a tent of meeting, we meet in Brooks’s Forbearance a restraint that belies an urgent strength, poems training us for some contest or some kingdom here and sure to come—as sinewy and hale a debut as I’ve seen.”