The profile makers

Beauty of language, dazzling imagination, an intense empathy for her subjects: this is what has distinguished Linda Bierds's poetry through four previous volumes. With The Profile Makers, Bierds reaches even further to produce a volume of stunning originality and power. Losing none of the integrity or freshness of her earlier poetry, this new work forms a complex, many-layered, and interconnected whole, a kind of double helix of poetry.