Zara Raab's poems evoke the rainy darkness of the remote northern California coast where she and her family have lived for almost two hundreds years. FRACAS & ASYLUM continues her journey through inner and outer landscapes characterized by alternating moods of storm, seclusion and reverie. "In FRACAS & ASYLUM, her third collection, Raab emerges as a poet of mature accomplishment, one who has come fully awake to her vocation. The mythic landscapes of her northern California childhood still resonate with dark beauty, while her themes have widened and opened outward. A bravura description of tangled shoelaces doubles as an image of the clumsiness of love; putting on a sweater becomes an existential struggle against suffocation in all its guises; writing poetry is, for her, akin to deep-sea diving. Her language is playful, even mischievous at times, always surprising and original. In her formal daring and thematic breadth, Raab bears witness to much that is broken and awry in the world...

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