In this haunting, intense, and lyrical new collection of poems by Rachel Contreni Flynn, we meet two sisters growing up in farmland America until they are separated by the older girl s illness. The younger girl travels to the Maine coast where the radio reports the discovery of a human tongue on the beach. Tongue is a story as harrowing and magical as any Old World fairy tale, told in a voice that is at once frank and gentle. Flynn has crafted a book full of wilderness, mystery, magic, as her poems confront time and again the myths and memories of childhood and ask us to name what...