by Paul Gilliland (Editor), Ann Iverson (Author)

"There are no measures too small to take for the heart. We do what we can to keep it afloat," writes Ann Iverson in this series of elegies to parents, sisters, a former husband, landscapes real or imagined, and the dizzy beauty of lives lived when we are younger than young. Iverson is a poet, and her prose is studded with the surprise of the accurate detail and the jolt of the compressed image: "the deception in graveyards," "the churchless winter," the Oklahoma grass, "brittle hair after a cheap permanent wave." Read these essays once for the worlds that will open - vivid and suddenly known - and a second time for "the sound of the heart...here I am."
- Patricia Weaver Francisco - author of Telling

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