Poetry. In a time of crisis, and with a lifetime of geography residing
within us, the punctuated spaces of REQUISITE reveal the interior
narratives of a collapsing world. We learn resistance: To not dismiss
ourselves from the story unfolding before us. Instead, we must follow
the quietness that encompasses-that has been seeking our attention all
along-as we acknowledge the ecology of events within and without, and
must reconcile to survive.
Smart and emotionally complex, these poems create a beautiful meditation
moving us around our changing earth with elegance and precision. An
intellectual nod to our current times.-Kelli Russell Agodon
Within the manifest crisis of ecological collapse, Holtland wanders with
awareness, sensitive to resources that enhance 'the invisible faculty.'
The spare, sinuous song of this poetry nurtures possibility amid peril,
for Holtland's probing, restorative attention is never passive, but
instead moves with the vitality of necessity.-Elizabeth Robinson
Here is a poet who knows something secret, and it is with profound,
urgent acuity that she reminds us how 'the curve of the earth / comes to
meet you, / to the smallest / portions of the soul.'-Jennifer S. Cheng
