Publications
The Receipt
Cynren Press
In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves’s poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages as well as her own.
Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor’s first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves’s fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery
God, Maybe
Scattering Skies Press
"With God, Maybe, Trish Reeves has written a wonderful book: haunted and haunting, beautiful and precisely built. Her poems are like no one else’s."
–Stephen Dobyns
"...Trish Reeves writes with erudition and wit. God, Maybe is an ambitious collection. Spiritual, historical, existential, these poems delve deep into the big questions of our place in the universe. Both
In the Knees of the Gods
BkMk Press
"...Reeves is a wise geographer of 'the narrows of the present,' alert to the mortal challenge 'to creep across the frozen earth/long enough to win your life back/in bites, mouthfuls…'”
–Robin Becker
"Compressed as these spare lyrics are, they open to an unmistakable amplitude: the life of feeling honored, observed, sung. '...luck could sing from every word on this
Returning the Question
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
"Trish Reeves’ vision is so urgent, utterly original and lucid that I felt upon reading this book that I was seeing and understanding some things–passion, death, childhood, terror, courage–for the first time. This is an extraordinary book–in its craft, its imagination, its heart."
–Thomas Lux
"...To read her is to remember that the earth