Description: The Sensual World Reemerges, Eleanor Lerman’s fifth collection of poetry, she circles back to the themes that began her career at age twenty-one with publication of the book, Armed Love, that The New York Times Book Review said was “bound to unnerve us” with its “hunger [and] savage humor.” The more recent collections muse in a kinder fashion on the themes of love, loss, and aging. But in The Sensual World, Lerman reminds her readers that she’s still prowling the darkness where the soul can be a treacherous and needy companion, where the hunger to penetrate the mystery of consciousness and what lies beyond is never sated, and where the poet, still armed and dangerous, never rests. This is a spectacular collection from an award-winning poet writing at the absolute height of her powers.