Atomizer: Poems

Atomizer spritzes, spits, and deluges us in the perfumery of seduction, fetish, duplicity, commodity, and code. What carries the day is the speaker herself, a fierce, traumatized truth-teller whose X-ray eyes see through it all in a work of harrowing brilliance and sheer heartbreak. I urge you to douse yourself in Atomizer.--Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl
Elizabeth A. I. Powell is one of those rare poets of tremendous spiritual obsessions who are at the same time in complete command of the organic world--its tactility, physicality, violence, and strange, unsettling details. She is visionary yet concrete. She is always startling and dramatic. Her poems are big and engulfing, yet shot through with a beautiful locality and precision. She sees the sermons in the stones.--Vijay Seshadri, author of 3 Sections, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Atomizer presents a world reflected through our most elusive sense: olfaction. Generously evocative, reflective, and above all human, the poems in this book present themselves as little aromatic jewels. They capture what it means to be a sensory body with a brain attached. They get to the feeling of a sense that is impossible to know.--Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder and executive director of the Institute for Art and Olfaction