"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding the words, the exact names, for a world that is almost unbearably precious, evanescent, wild."-- Edward Hirsch

In these moving poems, Judy Michaels illuminates an intense period of five years in her life: against a backdrop that celebrates her young students, an enduring marriage, and the power of music and mountains, she writes about the sudden loss of her mother to cancer, her father's ensuing depression and alcoholism, and her own...

"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding the words, the exact names, for a world that is almost unbearably precious, evanescent, wild."-- Edward Hirsch

In these moving poems, Judy Michaels illuminates an intense period of five years in her life: against a backdrop that celebrates her young students, an enduring marriage, and the power of music and mountains, she writes about the sudden loss of her mother to cancer, her father's ensuing depression and alcoholism, and her own...