From dreams to memories to the realities of life in the border cities of Windsor and Detroit, Smith's collection of poems brings us through the wonder and the questionable in our everyday lives. Hers is a strong voice that emerges from the places familiar to those who inhabit the region these poems call home. From the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to New Year's Eve spent at the infamous Coach and Horses dive bar to the seeming simplicity of breakfast with her father, these poems connect on a profoundly personal leve

Sing of your sorrow, sing of your love, sing of that which you must leave behind. This premise lies behind Songs about Girls. A chapbook that marks Carter Vance’s first collected volley into the literary scene. With it we are brought across borders defined by the very personal interactions in familiar places such as Ulster, Brooklyn, Ottawa, and Toronto. These are poems that ring out with song and criss-cross borders and places and rattle with the essence of what it means to be human. Hear in these words the emergence of a fresh poetic voice for a world that rejects borders and...