“Amelia Earhart, known for her aviation firsts, but best known for vanishing on the final leg of her flight around the world, re-emerges in C.L. Nehmer‘s Alchemy of Planes: ‘Woman. Pioneer. Wife. Enigma.’ Nehmer shares Earhart’s adventurous spirit, her ‘blood-wild,’ and catches in brilliant word craft the rising, and sometimes sinking, currents of Amelia’s pursuit of her dreams. Thanks to Nehmer, Amelia Earhart’s ‘grit and gumption’ will become the reasons Earhart is known. Nehmer herself, mark my words, will be known as a poet who deserves our attention.” –Margaret Rozga, author of four books of poetry including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems, and 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate
