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"Amid a global crisis, a young woman is trying to keep the pieces together--of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and WHAT IS LOVE?...

"[The poet Kate] Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, these poems channel Baer's own journey to middle age into poems...

"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with...

Madeleine is a rebellious nine-year-old-- and an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the death of her mother and caring for her father, she doggedly searches for Philadelphia's legendary jazz club The Cat's Pajamas, where she's determined to make...

"The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a...