Works by
Juliet Patterson
(Poet)

The Truant Lover (2006) -- Winner 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize; Finalist, 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Juliet Patterson incorporates the voices of Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker, and Wallace Stevens, drawing into her stunning debut a fascination with the difficult, the improbable, and the uneasy. There is a quiet ferocity to mourn the world's injustice and a passion in her work expressing the perplexities of love, grace, and consciousness. For all their easy fluency of detail and lyrical meticulousness, they are poems not intended for the faint-hearted; they are tough and unsparing, offering for our consolation only their scrupulous precision.