REVIEWS OF COME NOW TO THE WINDOW
Ann Iverson understands the poetic line. In Come Now To The Window, Iverson’s edgy, occasionally broken syntax is balanced with other lines spare and elegant. Her wisdom about her own poetics is matched by her abiding faith in her subjects — beloved, flawed family; animals wild and domestic; landscapes; the revelations found inside of changing seasons, dreams, and solitude. Ann Iverson's first collection haunts with its beauty, sorrow, and humanity.
Deborah Keenan, author of Willow Room,
Green Door: New and Selected Poems
For years now, I’ve been reading Ann Iverson's poems with great pleasure. If it is true, as Iverson says, that Life is broken at the root, “ it is also true that “You see the eyes of one lone doe searching for water and suddenly you cannot call yourself back. The thrush of something sends itself down your throat. You belong there.” It is the mix of the brokenness and the sense of belonging so deeply inside her own life that gives these poems both authority and heart. “I can see through myself,” she writes, and it is true: the self becomes a kind of medium through which she sees the world and all of us in the world. It is the depth of this seeing that is the sustaining mystery of these poems.
Jim Moore author of Lightning at Dinner
Ann Iverson's poems are filled with the singular beauty of the unexpected, and exactly right, phrase and image. Her passionate voice carries us into the complex secrets of common things – pets and gardens, art and illness, love and family, the mourned dead. In Come Now To The Window, Ann catches the light of the intimate moments, and with unique, luminous language exposes them as the true heart and text of our lives.
Kirsten Dierking author of One Red Eye