"Elizabeth Metzger's intelligence and originality are spiritual, earthy, and brave. unexpected, yet familiar, her poetry is dream- like, a gift." - Jean valentine, author of Shirt in Heaven
"I've rarely come across a first book as unconditional, as exquisite, as captivating as this one is." - Lucie Brock- Broido, author of Stay, Illusion
"The Spirit Papers is a haunted book. Elizabeth Metzger's striking poems, limber and torqued, conjure phantom presences and palpable absences. The Spirit Papers, finally, and successfully, builds a world- a world built as much out of what's found, as out of what resists being found." - James Haug, Juniper Prize for Poetry judge and author of Legend of the Recent Past
