The Struggle to Adore

Intense, analytical poems about the power and the powerlessness of love.

ADVANCED PRAISE

“Alane Rollings’s large, inclusive, self-questioning poems meditate on the nature of love and its accompanying mysteries. Here at last is a moving, completely contemporary record, a book of intimate attachments and love poems.”
—Edward Hirsch

“Such energy, such passion, such desire! One sees these brought together—as here they are—but rarely. Yes, very rarely.”
—Donald Justice

“…we are saved, momentarily, by her poems that reach our lives through her singular perception … completely absorbing…”
—Hayden Carruth

“… the language crackles with the electricity of wit… also rich in adumbrations of another universe of which her own work gives us breathtaking intimations.”
—John Frederick Nims

“Rollings transforms us with the colors and reach of her language.”
—Colette Inez

“Every poem by Alane Rollings awakens new possibilities inside our words and inside ourselves. No voice could be more welcome now.”
—Donald Revell

“If there could be such a thing as an original heart, I’d say it informs this remarkable, stirring book. I certainly feel the magic of an original mind.”
—Stephen Dunn