The Solace Is Not the Lullaby

Jill Osiers poems of quiet attention comprise this 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, called stunning by Kimberly Burwick in Orion The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osiers poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. Series judge and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips notes, Osiers is a sensibility unlike any Ive encountered beforethe poems here are thrilling, and strangely new. In his foreword to the collection, Phillips writes, Certain mysteriesmost of themremain mysteries in an Osier poem. Despite this, Osiers poetrydistinguished by its brevity, precision, and restraintoffers what Phillips describes as feeling incongruously (dare I say magically?) like closure, a steady place to land.