From a life of meditation and memory, legend and language, Lisa Bickmore probes in poems intimate yet inclusive the dark spaces of experience where figures align, collapse, and realign. This second edition contains a new foreword by the author.

Lisa Bickmore is Professor Emeritus at Salt Lake Community College, where she was one of the founders of its Publication Center. She is the author of three books of poems. The second, flicker (2016), won the Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press. She won the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for “Eidolon,” which appears in her third collection, Ephemerist (2017, Red Mountain Press). She is the founder and publisher of the new independent nonprofit, Lightscatter Press. In July 2022, she was named the Poet Laureate for the State of Utah. She lives with her husband, John McCormick, in West Jordan.