Placebo Effects: Poems

This collection of beguiling poems … takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film… . There is something of the child’s wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies. - Boston Globe Jeanne Beaumont’s poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder. - William Matthews How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut. - David St. John