Anne Shaw's impressive first collection, Undertow, is an exploration, in the key of doubt,
of all that moves beneath the surface of a cosmos riddled with light.
                                                                                                             -Carolyn Forchè

The poems in Undertow--luminous, clairvoyant, radiant--are spun as if from the finest silk,
their threads almost invisible, their tensile strength unimaginably strong. Few debuts
are as candid and uncanny, generous and fierce, or elaborate and distilled as Anne Shaw's
first book is.
                                                                                                                -Eric Pankey