Because Why
Reviews

Nick Flynn:
"Sarah Fox has given us a gift—each poem in this thrilling collection inhabits a quotidian mystery, yet always tugs at the limits of knowing, pushing into dreamscape, into realms of the unconscious. Art, science, pop culture, religion, motherhood, loverhood—all are gathered here in the necessary service of dumbstruck awe. Read the whole book, then read it again."

Bob Hicok:
"Sarah Fox has found a way to create spaces where different sensibilities—lyric, narrative, surreal—can coexist and change, one into another. This fullness of range allows moments of complete surprise when Fox shifts from one tone to another. Because Why is an accretion of motions, of touchings upon words, into a primarily aural sense of the relationship between idea and feeling."

Fanny Howe:
"Here we have strange combinations, surreal deliveries, and reliable musical syntax. This is how the theory of relativity begins to manifest itself in the poetry of our time. Words are almost only sounds, pressed forward by an anxiety of objectless activity. ‘Days are short here, nights / shorter. We sleep / like blind sailors in beds // that deliver us secretly home.' In this new poetry we can begin to trace the way our thinking behaves. Everything that is, now is not. Why not? Because."

Dale Pendell:
"Sarah Fox's poems buzz with energy and imagination. Sometimes it's a slide show at ten frames per second; sometimes it's an alchemical crock-pot simmering with the indignation of witness. Sometimes it's a dive through the possibilities of a holographic syntax."