How Time Moves

This new and selected collection gathers more than thirty years of poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Across them she considers what it means to live as a person within a specific landscape, moment, body, inherited past, and personal narrative.

The volume draws on her six earlier poetry books: Following the Curve, Chasing Weather, Landed, Animals in the House, Reading the Body, and Lot's Wife. Readers who know those works will find them gathered in one place, and newcomers get a broad view of her work across three decades.

Mirriam-Goldberg, who holds a Ph.D., served as Kansas Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2013. She has written two dozen books, including the novels Miriam's Well and The Divorce Girl, the memoir The Sky Begins At Your Feet, which deals with cancer and community, and Needle in the Bone, a nonfiction book about the Holocaust. She founded Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, where she still teaches, and she leads writing workshops across the country.