)Locus Tides(( (Paperback)

Poetry. "Mary Rising Higgins displays exquisite command of tensions in the contemporary languages we hear, speak, and read. Her poetry reflects the most intimate motions of the mind in surprising tangencies of phrases and images from the media as readily as from the lexicon of intense meditation. She considers what to expect and continually offers what is wonderfully unexpected" - Phyllis Hoge Thompson. "In poem after poem Higgins accumulates words, notations, sensations, objects, with a specificity that makes us consider them as hard-edged artifacts.self and the world ultimately collapse into the same dispersed essence" - Charles Alexander.