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A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings is Eloise Klein Healy s seventh book of poetry and the first that includes an audio component. Included are poems from all her previous collections, including her award-winning first collection, Building Some Changes, as well as Artemis In Echo Park and The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho. Healy s work is immediately recognizable as poetry written by a woman under the influence of feminism, freeway traffic, wilderness (especially in the city), and a uniquely tuned sense of craft. Her work travels easily across time zones, mythologies, the politics of love, and the inevitable loss of family and friends. She searches for a lesbian tradition in literature, lamenting the erasure of lesbian writers and the fragmented history of their work. But Healy s poetry is not without humor, nor does it shy away from such topics as baseball and the companionship of canines. Like life, poetry to her is a wild surmise —-never totally translatable, but always worth the attempt.