Margo Stever

"Margo Stever listens to every sound, every edge of word that she uses here, so as to 'get said what must be said' in an otherwise brutal world. She is an impeccable poet, and this book proves it absolutely."

"This collection of poems includes horses and oceans, a lost life of orchards and fields, the ghost of a dominant mother, a dead father, five siblings, and numerous half-suppressed fears for the poet's own children. For this wonderful first book, the natural world plays a major role- sometimes harsh, sometimes lyrical, but always beautiful."

"Unfolding in a series of surprising metaphors and startling linkages, [Margo Stever's] lyrics move us from the ordinary into a realm of imagination and language whose only name is poetry."