Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook's second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both graceful and startling.
Whether she is rewriting Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid" (as she does in her poem sequence "Days of Water"), thinking of Breughel's/Williams'/ Auden's Icarus, reading oranges, or offering advice for catching crows, Cook's words are luminous.