from Saturnalia Poetry
“SLIP will grip you and not let go. Callihan does what we can only hope the most ambitious poetry might do: answer back to the ineffable, while simultaneously revealing a life lived to the hilt. Sly, often effervescent, SLIP offers both brutality and tenderness. I love this stingingly beautiful book.” —Lee Upton, author of The Day Every Day Is
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“chigger ridge is an invocation, a beckoning. An investigation of the “dark places” of both body and landscape. A close look at Southern girlhood and a landscape of mountains, mined, stripped, empty. An angel speaks while a cat’s eye marble rolls. Danger threatens; language slips and quickens. Nicole Callihan’s new book is a brilliant excavation of landscape, language, and escape.’ —Nicole Cooley, author of Mother Water Ash”
from The Word Works