“This collection is enigmatic, transversive, transformative. There is a movement within its pages—between sections and poems, between concepts and experiences—that is reminiscent of the Italian notion of attraversiamo; crossing over, moving on, getting to another place. . . . [it] is electric with a brilliant lyricism that pulls the reader like a current through shifting locales, political commentary, and mindful meditations on religion, relationship, life and death. A lyricism so stunning that a respected poet recently observed, 'I’d like to write fifty books just so I could use a different line from each of [these] poems as the epigraph.' Always in motion and always multifaceted, the poems in River Electric With Light remind us that 'Our lives are always half over,' but 'There’s still time.'”

—Diode Poetry Review

"Take yourself on a spiritual pilgrimage with Sarah Wetzel in her recent collection River Electric with Light, through which she accompanies readers to the far flung reaches of Kabul, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rome, and New York City, exploring the violent and the sacred, the beautiful and the heart-wrenching. Wetzel is a woman simultaneously at home and away in these poems, navigating the landscape of being a partner and caretaker, with being a woman on the road—an emotional landscape as complex as the physical geography she traverses."

—Bustle, "13 Poetry Collections To Read For National Poetry Month"

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