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Poetry. Women's Studies. Edited by Heidi Hermanson, Liz Kay, Jen Lambert, and Sarah McKinstry-Brown. The four editors of THE UNTIDY SEASON, each an accomplished poet in her own right, searched for poems of clarity, honesty, passion, and brilliance. One of the editors writes: "We were drawn to work that both celebrated and subverted the 'typical' Nebraska experience, the 'typical' experience of motherhood, the 'typical' experience of womanhood. I suppose my own aesthetic leads me to be drawn to work that challenges 'typical, ' but much of the work we experienced over that year of reading...

"Its terrible, / getting what you want, / because thats when you know youll always want / something different" confesses the speaker in Cradling Monsoons with a fabulously poignant bravado that keeps the reader tractor-beamed in thrall and enthralled within the light of these smart, funny, heartbreakingly gorgeous poems. Opening with a poem about a father who "cut down his family tree / to build a bridge from Kokomo to San Francisco thats still burning," the speaker in Sarah McKinstry-Browns poems conversely puts down roots and stays for the birth of a first child whose arrival sets the city...