These poems are freighted with longing and doubt but they are never naive. Passionate, unflinching family stories and personal loss are here, and yet the will to love breaks all molds.
ALIKI BARNSTONE is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Real Tin Flower, which was published when she was twelve years old and prefaced by Anne Sexton, and most recently, Bright Body (2011). She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she serves as Series Editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.
