Winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, selected by Barbara Guest Winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, selected by John Matthias
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“True North is a profound meditation on history and geography, time and eternity, number and a state beyond number. It is a superb book...”
— Marjorie Perloff
“The volume is a tour de force, and exhilarating to read.”
— The Women’s Review of Books
“Strickland is the fanatical heir of tiny and enormous languages: earthtalk, cybertalk, Mother Goose, witchcraft, science, Cuneiform, direction, isolation, mathematics, privilege, history and that grand old elusive: truth.”
— Maureen Seaton
“Strickland is a thrilling poet... Rooted in her sense of the profound voluptuous, she is a powerful ‘fabulist of what we are.’”
— Marie Ponsot