About the Author

Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two prior books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice

Reviews

The poems in Beth Bachman's Cease-not quite lyric, not quite prose-read more like urgently wired messages. Sometimes, her words splash forward like water from a pitcher. Sometimes, they erupt like fire from a drum. The disasters of war may be infinite, but fortunately God gave us the desire for touch to redeem ourselves. Along with beauteous animals and the earth. Beth Bachmann has written a scarily original, apocalyptic book about a time when it appears it is necessary to destroy and kill for peace."" - Henri Cole