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Elizabeth Willis is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also writes about poetry, labor, and art. Learn more >

“To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in this visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments of the circus and its timeless disciplinary displays. More about this book >
Elizabeth Willis is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also writes about poetry, labor, and art. Willis is the editor of the essay collection Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place and she teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
