Red List Blue by Lizzy Fox

Lizzy Fox’s poems are agile and clear, their presence tuned to the reverberating uncertainties of surface appearance and darkening realities. Her intelligence shines in her tonal control and gentle persistence, the way she applies steady pressure to a mood or image until it yields the full range of its possibilities, both light and dark. “We are tender fools,” she writes, and in these poems a tender heart and tough mind together radiate a hard-earned love for this difficult world. Witty, wise, compassionate, these are the poems we need and welcome in these hard days.

–Cynthia Huntington

Red List Blue is a layered collection of longing, anxiety, and grief for both the natural world and our place in it.  “Each wave moves me,” Lizzy Fox writes. And you will also be moved by these poems and the currents they navigate. Whether studying sea creatures swimming through trash, or simply trying to parallel park on a crowded street, these poems are simultaneously urgent and tender, looking both outward and inward, not to catalogue damages, but to locate the human significance of our actions and feelings.

–Matthew Olzmann

In Red List Blue, Lizzy Fox announces she is “a constellation, stars/ over a new moon.” This book is a star chart, a bestiary, an almanac of her internal weather. It shines with the light of a star that took a thousand patient years to reach us.

–Tomas Q. Morin