Not Only / But Also

Not Only / But Also is book of poetry in which Anne Higgins looks back at youth and life's trials and joys with the wisdom of age. Her poems echo the canon of English poetry in a unique honesty beyond mere allusion. She has absorbed the lessons of Shakespeare, Milton, Hopkins, Dickinson and Blake and filtered them back to us in slices of contemporary American life, the cruelty of musical chairs, the joy of hopscotch, the agony of aging and loss. She Not Only / But Also stakes her claim to the heart of American poetry.