Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life by Gabrielle Myers

“‘I want you to see what I see,’ Gabrielle Myers writes in her book of ecopoetic lyrics, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life. Drawing us into her resonant vision through deft lines that weave and leap across the page, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life unfolds intricate patterns of the natural world and animal life, uncanny images in dream, moments of vivid violence and exultant beauty. This is a book of passionate attention and deep empathy.”

–Margaret Ronda, author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End and poetry collections Personification and For Hunger

“The poems in Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life, by Gabrielle Myers, are supple and courageous. They tell a story of letting go of an abusive relationship (‘his frothing mouth, his tongue spinning / ‘idiot’ ‘dumbass ‘retard’’) and forging a new life the way ‘Grasses shove themselves upward, / Verdant in their reach, gathering, rising.’ The world we can lose ourselves into is rich in sensory delights: ‘ceviche’s lime tang, peppers’ heat and singe, / cilantro’s floral roundness.’ It’s a delicious world that we are fortunate to enter.”

–Lucille Lang Day, author of eleven poetry collections, including Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and editor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

–Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. Poet Laureate: “Gabrielle Myers does not shy away from a kind of post-mod naturalism, where we can taste things, see things, and even – I dare say – touch their ‘opalescent crisp skin.’…She manages a lush 21st century personal pointillism. Most lovely, most alluring.”

–Matthew Zapruder writes of Too Many Seeds: “These poems of deep interiority and lush attention are a pleasure to read.” Rusty Morrison of Omnidawn Publishing on Break Self: Feed: “Break Self: Feed is stunningly myriad in its complexities, even as it is searingly direct in its line-by-line depiction of our human struggle to know ourselves and others, and to create a life that will ‘feed’ us. The subject-matters of this text are jigsaw-puzzle pieces that mirror a life broken and yet finding the means to cohere.”

–Cyrus Cassells, Jackson Poetry Prize recipient for 2025, writes of Points in the Network: “In these alliterative and crackling poems, Gabrielle Myers is alive to the bonanza of the natural world in all of its beneficent and imperiled beauty. In an apt, engaging way, Points in the Network, her third volume, reminds the alert reader that habitats and landscapes vividly and succinctly rendered in verse can also serve as viable cinema verité and soulful, revealing self-portraiture.”