The Station Before by Linda Anderson Anna Deeny thus leaving interested readers with

thus leaving interested readers with only the opening movement and the closing coda of the whole work

toys and fopperies confusedly tumbled about’

but there is no standing aside

the Daodejing develops its vision of humankind’s place in the world in personal

The Station Before by Linda Anderson Anna Deeny thus leaving interested readers withLinda Anderson's much anticipated first collection travels across time and space, employing a range of voices, including historical ones. At the heart of the collection, though, is always the moment of encounter, the moment when things appear strange, before they settle into a pattern or become known. This is as true of the explorer Charles Kingsley, awed by the Caribbean landscape, as it is of the poet herself, confronted with moments of vision or