"This is a poised and startling collection, full of poems that give the heart and gut a twist. Pippa Little allows language to thrill to the possibilities of change, while simultaneously making sure her words affirm our deepest connection to the 'velvet of underearth'."

Jacob Polley

"Two poles, the magical-celebratory and the challenging moment, give crucial structure to this striking new collection, which is distinguished throughout by beauties of syntax and a witty springy lyricism. These poems do indeed twist, turn, knot, unknot, are sinuous, and entirely memorable."

Penelope Shuttle

“Twist is an imaginarium of the sensed world, its lyric artistry born of precise attention to its particulars. Little is both naturalist and secular mystic, with an ear to the air of language. These are poems that tunnel into the open of later life and I find deep wisdom in them.”

Carolyn Forché