
"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might...

In her dynamic first collection, award-winning poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont navigates the dusky waters of opposites. The tension between the two voices results in a deftly energetic cadence that lifts the poems off the page. Beaumont's precise and curious attention to the world...