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While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her "vacation flirtation." But just because summer is over doesn't mean Lucy and Jesse have to be, does it?
In this stunning novel, April Lindner perfectly captures the highs and lows of a summer love that might just be meant to last beyond the season.

Poetry. THIS BED OUR BODIES SHAPED from April Lindner is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. This collection is a celebration of the universal human experience childhood, puberty, parenthood, aging from a uniquely personal and sensual perspective. Linder's craft, which finds masterful and original expression in metrical and free verse, enlivens each experience until we seem part of the scene. Eavesdropping on this engagingly narrated life gives us startling new insights into our own.

"April Lindner's THIS BED OUR BODIES SHAPED is a beautifully intimate and domestic book...

Skin is the 11th winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry Prize, awarded by Texas Tech University Press and named in honor of a former TTUP poetry editor. Lindner, who teaches English at St. Joseph's University, seems well-deserving. She has a sharp eye for detail: daylight, rationed by Venetian slats, the white moth of a kiss / blown from a boy's plump lips, burnt / sienna moustache, milky way of red freckles - these are picked at random from just two pages. She also has a well-nigh flawless ear for lyrical phrases graced by the uneven rhythm extolled by the French symbolist Paul...