Thrown Voice

Isabel Neal teaches literature and creative writing in Maine. A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, she has received fellowships from Lighthouse Works, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.

“Like no other book I’ve read by a young writer. She is interested in what the world is doing when we aren’t there to see it. . . . One could picture Neal as a kind of minimalist troubadour poet—one whose beloved is the very land and water. A subtle eroticism is spread broadly but also thinly over the surface of the earth.”—Rae Armantrout, from the Foreword