intimate geographies: poems
by Bo Thorne Niles ’62
Finishing Line Press, 2012
“Although its title may call to mind Elizabeth Bishop, the poems in intimate geographies conjure the alert, lucid spirit of May Swenson as they shape their way toward emotional heights and depths. In this collection, which is also recollection, the poet’s formal and verbal inventiveness is deftly balanced with a tender attention to sensory details. The resulting poems map, and honor really, lives that are dear, vivid, all-too-swiftly passing, and therefore, in the truest sense, sacred.” —Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Bo Niles is a former magazine editor and writer who specialized in home design and decoration; she has written a number of books on these subjects, as well as a travel memoir. Her poems have been published in Ekphrasis, Avocet, Mobius, The Lyric and Podium, among other journals.