And reading Williams was crucial: his superb sense of line, his energy, his strange swerves.

Harmonium is reticent where Ariel is declarative. Wallace Stevens was a useful counterpoint. Her comments add extra insight into the poem: '.But-especially as a young woman-you have to get away from PlathвЂ™s influence. As a sidenote, I don't know why such a big deal is made out of how young and successful she is - I was up for a Pulitzer in kindergarten. She read two poems about New Jersey, specifically one about Sandy Hook, where I attended high school all four years of once upon a time ago. She fielded some difficult questions very well - especially the dense philosophical ones. Below is one of my favorite poems for the book. I can trace her stated influences (such as Stevens, Plath, or Williams) but understand that she has her own unique voice. I very much enjoyed her reading, to listen to poems I've read two or three times over, close-reading several of them. The range of this poetвЂ™s work amazes me.' The spare lyric poems of her Halflife accrue into a meta-narrative of the city-its latter days of memory, mutilation, and a due portion of compassion. Blankets (of comfort or suffocation) preoccupy her 'quasi-coming of age' collection of poetry.Дavid Baker's observation is worth listening to, unlike most praise included on sleeve jackets: 'Meghan OвЂ™Rourke sings with an exacting yet enchanted voice. Certain images recur in her work: in a post-9/11 world, smoke rising into the sky haunts her poems as her poems haunt the reader. She currently resides in Brooklyn.ДЄ lover of elision, but also dedicated to a concise voice in her poems, OвЂ™Rourke writes subtle lyric poems that reveal something new to the reader upon each visit to her book, Halflife. You will do great things with your life, I promise. Every time I see you or talk to you I get a smile on my face. OвЂ™RourkeвЂ™s first book of poems, Halflife, was published in April 2007 by W.W. Meg Elizabeth, you are the smartest and most beautiful person I know. In 2002, she was the youngest of Columbia Journalism ReviewвЂ™s вЂњTen Young Editors To WatchвЂќ in the category of magazine writing. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. Her criticism has appeared in The Los Angeles Times Book Review and The Yale Review. Her writing and poetry have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, the Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Poetry, and other publications. These cross-disciplinary efforts have encouraged TCNJ students to attend leading gradu-ate programs in public health (Johns Hopkins) and health communication (Penn State, Ohio State, Emerson, George Mason, and the Annenberg School at Penn). She had also been a co-editor of poetry at The Paris Review since 2002. students Kristen Kiernicki, Megan Roe (вЂ09), Megan Van Der Stad (вЂ10) and Kevin Gilligan (вЂ09). Meghan OвЂ™Rourke has been the culture editor of the online literary magazine Slate for almost five years.

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