"In a shimmering phenomenology of body, spirit, and soul, The Right Hand resides at the tender junction of nerve and bone, “a nexus: metropolitan.” In her radiant collection, Christina Pugh’s astute eye illuminates Maya Lin’s lovely river of pins, St. Teresa of Avila with an angel, and wonders such as a “sea of porphyry.” A mystical cartography of the senses, Pugh’s earthbound threshold of the human resonates with our longing for God and the eternal, mapping a basil leaf juxtaposed to a basilica, displaying “the flash of a neural jewel,” or glowing with “this notion / of change carved in marble / unfettering the seam / between watcher / and creator.”"
