The Boys of Bluehill displays all of the insight and mystery that characterize her best work (The forest floats over the land, / the island slides across the sea”, they are thin as air, as a leaf that has stayed / a century inside a book”). These qualities make the most accessible of poems deeply resonant and the most complex ones worth many readings. The themes of music, religion, art, language, and nature unwind a fable of being and perception which is unmistakably hers. ...