About the Book
These poems possess a quiet urgency—an elegant, stark beauty. The sentences are prisms conjugating light. - Elaine Equi
Gouirand repunctuates the world in stops and starts as she reaches toward new ways to parse the complexities of love. Open Winter shows us how language breaks and fails, how poems repair and revive. - Mark Wunderlich
Rae Gouirand's poems glow with motion and stillness, the richness of consciousness, as they delicately enlarge the boundaries of comprehension and desire. Open Winter offers a shimmering geometry of cognition in visionary poems that witness the erotic ligatures between self and world. It is a generative—and deeply generous—book. - Alice Fulton
About the AuthorRae Gouirand’s first collection, OPEN WINTER, was selected by Elaine Equi for the 2011 Bellday Prize for Poetry. An alumna of the MFA program in Creative Writing, she lives in Davis, California and serves as Writer-in-Residence for the Cache Creek Conservancy.
