RaveOn the SeawallHer visionary leaps are as bold as NASA’s though the impact of an interplanetary trip on the human spirit is her central occupation. In her poems wonder is in tension with alienation, excitement with loss and grief ... Wisely she turns to the histories of imperialism and colonialism as she speculates on our future interplanetary travels ... What makes The Tilt Torn away from the Seasons so compelling is how richly it expresses human desire from various perspectives and in novel forms ... Rogers’s poems, on the other hand, showcase a multitude of disembodied voices singing about their alienation, excitement, grief, pain, and joy ... There’s a lot of formal daring in this book, as if Rogers’s ambitious concept demands new forms ... [There\'s] an eerie universality to Rogers’s voices that requires us to meditate on human desire on a scale beyond Earth’s. It’s as if she’s discovered a new category of existential bewilderment.
