M. Travis Lane

M. Travis Lane's poetry has always been divers, resisting the critics' need for tidiness. Though her concerns are often feminist, environmental, civic, and political, her poetry transcends such labels. She shifts easily from lyric to monologue to epigram to song to riddle, drawing inspiration show more equally from the natural world and the world of art and imagination but she does write, almost always, as if she were addressing the reader, not muttering to herself. Inquisitve, musical humane, her voice is instantly recognizable once herd. Crossover, Lane's fifteenth collection, is a continuation of one poet's exploration of the world and of her inner world, shared with us in the conviction that the spaces we inhabit overlap and connect. show less