Tethering World

"Jody Rambo's poems push and pull, travel and rest, occupy and set free.

Her `tether' both holds her fast to the facts and words that make up our world, but at the same time it liberates her to roam and travel, inclined as she says, `to wander off into the green beyond recoverable limits.' What I admire most about this book is the way the wide arc of history and narrative and the smallest gesture of image and word come together-tethered-into something wondrous and new." -Jeffrey Thomson"Jody Rambo's first book of poetry, Tethering World, is lyrical, tactile, and transcendent-in a word, enthralling.

The very texture embodies a personal way of seeing and saying, as does the extraordinary range of circumstances.

There is a beguiling strangeness to the writing, and philosophical smarts to boot. `I am weatherly,' says the speaker in Tethering World, and she truly is, singularly so.

This book is poetry top to bottom." -Marvin Bell"Pitched between Emily Dickinson's `Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?' and William Blake's `I want!

I want!,' Jody Rambo's Tethering World offers an elegant, somatic pastoral, a `weatherly' sensibility that forges the post-Lapsarian realm of loss and desire into an alchemical mix of rue, awe, beauty, and change-what John Keats called a `vale of soul-making.' Intelligent, prescient, eloquent, Rambo's tethering of poems compels us to inherit its manifold, exquisitely wrought linguistic ravishments, its vision." -Lisa Russ Spaar