About Jane Satterfield
Jane Satterfield’s seven books include The Badass Brontës (a Diode Editions winner), Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize), Her Familiars, and Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Poetry Award). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the NEA, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her poems and essays have appeared in About Place, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, Orion, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Terrain.org, and others. She is a professor of writing at Loyola University.
Praise for Luminous Crown
In Luminous Crown, Jane Satterfield finds way after way to keep me “in that place of astonishment” accessed when the heart remains wholly open to the greater-than-human world. The ferocity and porosity of these poems startle me into alertness and care. What splendid, necessary work.—Camille T. Dungy, author of America, A Love Story
Satterfield’s Luminous Crown delights with feral and aural intensities. The poems thrum with life, their rich linguistic soundscapes vitalizing human and animal experience amid upheaval. Here are wild moors and woods and tundra. While John Clare and Emily Brontë are her clear forebears, Satterfield’s intelligence is unmistakably 21st century, ever-aware that the “gem-like/glint across a lawn,/prismatic as it skims a pond” might be a drone as well as a dragonfly. Whether in a haunting nonce sonnet for Brood X cicadas or in a toxic lullaby voiced by a fracking executive who promises “[w]e are neighbors &/nosebleeds; disruptors & mutagens,” Satterfield proves it’s a mere slip of the eye from “bewilder to Be wilder.”—V. Penelope Pelizzon, author of A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye
