Salt

Liz Tilton was awarded her Ph.D. in English literature in June 2008 from the University of Cincinnati, where she now works in the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning. Her poems have been published in Southern Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and others

"A clear, seemingly effortless voice and a special curiosity animate the world Liz Tilton gives us in Salt. And it is a world, ranging from domestic life - loose change, gardening, the intricacies of love - to manatees and the governor of Texas. Discoveries abound. Salt is smart, subtle, and essential." - Don Bogen "Never coy or mincing, Liz Tilton's poems burst open our doors to swagger forth with announcements on their lips, announcements that promise a world that is at once familiar with the 'houseguests or in-laws' who threaten to live in our basements (and whose approach is denied), and yet refuses total fidelity to realism, as the speaker continues to rise above us, a 'cowgirl / hovering above the horehound ground, / leather holsters strapped with a big buckle, / helium riding high on [her] hips.' The bold, buoyant poems of Salt shimmy 'up to the mike stand' to sing our heats in forward and reverse." - Cate Marvin"