Cut River explores the natural world as a place mutated by our experiences; sometimes brightened by invention, sometimes dimmed with loss. McInnis’s unique experience of growing up female in the U.P.’s wilderness gives rise to a fresh and bold poetic voice.

Praise for Cut River:

I get the same pleasure from reading Amy McInnis’s Cut River that I do from looking at the intricate construction of a bird’s nest, or in hearing a hidden vireo singing at the top of a tree; her poems have that same unerring now-ness and clarity. “The woods should have a different name at night, something that tells us it will be harder to walk out the same,” she says in one of her poems. That we are changed irreparably by our threshold crossings is one of the many difficult truths of this dark and lovely book.

—Nancy Eimers, author of A Grammar to Waking

Cut River is the number two in the Holland Series, published by Logan House.

Cut River
Amy McInnis
Paperback: 68 pages
Logan House (February 22, 2007) $12
ISBN-13: 978-0976993520