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Book SynopsisTakes readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human.
Trade ReviewSoluble Fish is a no-holds-barred romp of language and imagination, a cornucopian celebration of great swathes of the known world, from dung beetles to the 'black stretch-leotard' of cosmic space. Mary Jo Firth Gillett's powerful music does not avoid the chaos and cacophonies of our lives but embraces and transforms them, devours them for nourishment and offers us a splendid richness that challenges, informs, and delights to the point of astonishment. - Philip Dacey, author of The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins ""Gratitude is what these poems quicken in us, for the witness of this life's abundant gifts: sea monkeys, lily pond, hibiscus - certainly - and the luxuriant ways of fathers, daughters, rivers, song. Gillett transforms the common table, the common talk, into something nearer the holy, holy, holy."" - Thomas Lynch, author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans ""Mary Jo Firth Gillett is an audacious writer who swerves between outrageous wit and linguistic abandon. Her insatiable imagination absorbs Pavlov, insect love, potatoes, Newtonian physics and a paper-thin-hibiscus, and this symphony of odd relations existing within and between her poems serves to enlarge our vision, our capacity for sympathy, while producing a rather pleasant form of vertigo. Gillett's juxtapositions delight the senses and intellect simultaneously, making a beeline for the heart of the matter through their vivid attentiveness to the materiality of everyday and not-so-everyday experience."" - Phillis Levin, author of Mercury
