You Good Thing

By Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) Description Reviews This title is no longer available. In her first new collection of poetry since 2006, Dara Wier contorts language in an attempt to define the indefinable. Her loose sonnets insist on a living language in the face of death, cycling and vibrant as the water that runs through them. Wier’s 11th collection delights in its turnings and tangents, line to line, poem to poem. Publishers WeeklyWier is a poet concerned with capturing the fluidity of thought and experience—and not diminishing its forward charge in doing so. Wier’s lines have always had a wild whitewater crash to them, overwhelming any vessel she pours them into. Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston GlobeThe ethics of the good, its generous, alchemical humility, is the good of Wier’s poetry. Alongside her other epithets—scintillating, hilarious, restless, impish—I’m adding Orphic. These are Orpheus poems. If one were to retell the Eurydice myth in light of Dickinson’s