A work reflecting our fraught contemporary moment of racial and gendered hatred, mass migration, global war, and terror. Waldman appropriates the idea of William Blake's unborn spirit of Thel to explore artists' and activists' roles during the Anthropocene. Profoundly resonant, essential, and impassioned, Waldman's latest work deserves to be read aloud to appreciate its deepest waters.
"Full of conscious and subconscious energy it bravely brings forth the diverse forces of our lives. It is a work of epic vision delivered as if in a trance of truth saying."
New York Journal of Books
"In her ambitious new work, veteran poet Waldman (The Iovis Trilogy) celebrates an ascendant goddess perhaps reluctant to arrive, perhaps representing a necessary transcendence… She's the voice, then, of conscience and salvation that has echoed throughout Waldman's engaged work. When, in a protean rush of lines linked not by syntax but context, Waldman cites 'a poetics of ecstasy/template for lite
Library Journal
"To occupy, to refuse to be quieted, to look into the dark face of the present. Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born recasts the cyclical patterns of William Blake's Book of Thel in a dark meditation on endings, on revolution, on embodiment. In seeking to break the binaries of innocence and guilt that keep the current political news cycle spinning in place, Waldman chooses to search the deep
