Rife

In RIFE, Stefanie Marlis reveals a mind remarkably equipped for the world's abundant variety. Marlis considers a dizzying array of stimuli including skunks, luckless moths, tumors, planets, and sugar, as well as words themselves. With rapt attention, she makes explicit the importance of each part to the whole. Here is an optimistic and compassionate second collection by a former Brittingham Prize winner.