Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems

"Is there anything Catherine Barnett can’t face head on, from a slight slant? In a style both disarmingly direct and slightly distant, as if the poems are in a bit of a trance, Barnett considers “all I’ve meant to mend. / Meant to mean.” For a book built around a series of aphoristic “Studies in Loneliness,” it’s excellent, compassionate company. It’s also art of a very high order."