Deltas by Leonie Rushforth Elaine Beckett and polychromatic

and polychromatic

corpse flowers bloom in America

including the reality of death

gracious renaissance in California

and of love in the sonnet form

Deltas by Leonie Rushforth Elaine Beckett and polychromaticLeonie Rushforth's first book reveals a poetics on high alert, where the 'tireless human sonar' scans a compromised world for calamity and grace. In her vision of precarity and connectedness, attention might prove the opposite of surveillance: a tender, sober act of keeping faith with the ethical force of exact expression. Her poems are provisional landscapes, like river deltas, where with language both sidelong and luminous she suggests a way of