The mesmerizing poems in Stanford's third collection move deftly from the kiss of the hummingbird's fringed tongue to apocalypse, from midwives' magical cures to a gritty New Jersey overpass. The poems take place in Brazil, in the Interior, and in the home, another kind of interior, and the book is a journey through both, harrowing and rewarding. Stanford reminds us ?[t]he same frame that contains us sometimes lets us go.?
Author Biography
ELEANOR STANFORD is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Book of Sleep and Bartram's Garden. She was a Fulbright fellow to Brazil, and lives in the Philadelphia area.
