Chorus Frog
Chorus Frog (Poetry, 2014) was published by Yellow Flag Press.
“Not only big eared bats 'open their mouths in ardor' in Chorus Frog. Every poem is lyric enough to make a reader gasp at its rich language. Whether praising the elegance of a swimming shrew’s pearly slippers or imagining with empathy a woman who has left behind, to history, her hairpins, Woolfitt’s writing is equally sensuous and spiritual. Chorus Frog both gets down to the bones of timeless stories and fleshes out the small lives (of animals, of unnamed ancestors) otherwise overlooked. Generosity of perception such as Woolfitt’s saves what is beautiful in the world, not as hard fossils, but as lively poems.” – Rose McLarney, author of The Always Broken Plates of Mountains