"Her taut lyrics reimagine the English language...truly singular." Publishers Weekly
A**A*A*A*A
Ahsahta 2018
Supported by Research Grants Committee Award & College Academy of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, University of Alabama, 2014-2017.
...a complicated love song for Alabama...a fresh and important contribution to ecopoetics. -- Up The Staircase
NOISE EVENT
Ahsahta 2012
...a lithe and complex book that is both linguistically inventive and emotionally compelling...the music is astonishing. -- Harvard Review
TAKE CARE FAKE BEAR TORQUE CAKE
Caketrain 2012
An exhilaratingly fresh take on the often-stale, overindulgent memoir genre. -- JMWW
DOG GIRL
Ahsahta 2007
These poems exist to challenge what we know of a word’s imaginary boundaries. And Staples hops, skips and pliés over these boundaries with grace and gumption. --Tarpaulin Sky
GUESS CAN GALLOP
New Issues Poetry Prize 2004
Selected by Brenda Hillman
In her relentless pursuit of swerving meaning, Heidi Lynn Staples reinvents poetry word for word. -- Charles Bernstein
