by Diana Senechal (Author) Diana Senechal is a great and original poet, with one eye on tradition and one astringent, compassionate eye on what really is--here in the shadowy now. Her presence, it's almost an ache, is deeply compelling and moving. - Rick Moody, author of Hotels of North America Solo Concert is centered on music, but more the delicate interstices-"the unheard hosanna," "bells in a slant of sun"-than blaring crescendos. These poems are listeners rather than talkers. Senechal's poetic voice, often humble and disarming ("I'm still learning to talk"), is ultimately inexorable ("I must occur"). In "Jackrabbit," she imagines a roadkill rabbit the instant before death in the headlights asking itself "what if, what if.