Part lamentation, part ode, Threnody (the word originates from the
Greek, threnos, "wailing" and oide "ode."), examines the beauty and
violence of our present ecological moment with a lyric and meditative
eye. Concerned with the precise relationship of components in the world
these poems exist in the overlap between imagination and fact, truth and
history, territory and map, the living and the dead. "Juliet Patterson's
poems are entirely themselves; they use time and the eye and tongue--all
the body, as thought and insight, inside and outside history." - Jean
Valentine