One Life by Lindsay Stuart Hill

“Lindsay Stuart Hill’s One Life is a delight. Whether the poet finds herself in India, Paris, Pamukkale, or a kitchen cutting up vegetables, she braids together spiritual and poetic ambitions into alert and persuasive acts of imagination.”
–Gregory Orr

“Many of Lindsay Stuart Hill’s poems force me to experience them on an unparaphrasable, intuitive level. There is a remarkable purity of intention here and yet something important has been left unsaid. Good poems, great poems, often resist the reader. I have read these poems many times and continue to feel I have not yet penetrated to their heart or core. I know I will keep coming back to them.”
–Elizabeth Spires

“A title like One Life might suggest the false counsel of easy sentiment – one life and one love and one world – but these poems by Lindsay Stuart Hill are too smart, too honest, too ravishing. “This makes a flower / of my mouth,” is arresting, lovely, but it’s the following line that deepens the moment: “Bees fly in.” The world flies into this collection: peacocks meow in the darkness. Rain on a roof hums. Cicadas sing. So do these poems.”
–Paul Guest

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]