“Intimate and raw reflections on loss and the body’s haunting memory unfold through poems that speak directly to the reader’s most vulnerable places. These poems explore the body’s terrain, caught between emptiness and possibility—between what we hold and what we surrender…this poet reveals the fragile connections between the self and the world, between absence and desire. Here, past wounds remain tender, yet the speaker traces each scar with care, finding beauty in the hollow spaces they leave behind.”

— January Gill O’Neil, Contest Judge for The Coniston Prize

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“Drawing on sources as diverse as birth records and natural history, yet retaining the intimacy of personal grief, she has shaped a story of loss on many levels. The poems are visually stunning and hauntingly drew me back for another read, and another. We need this book”

—Judge’s Citation, The Shirley Holden Helberg Grant

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“Gorgeously searing in its sparseness and quietness, painting a crucial picture of memory, family, and dislocation. Otherness haunts these poems, the ancestors are looking on, and the landscape they paint is breathtaking."

—Shortlisted for The DISQUIET Literature Prize