Mary Copeland dispels the myth still occasionally surfacing in the shallow waters of the ignorant that domestic life is some sort of refuge from the Big Questions rather than what it is: the very battleground where one engages them. In a language and syntax of stunning grace, vitality, nuance, and evocative power, Copeland as mother, daughter, lover, and acute observer of the human dilemma takes us where the best poetry should, to the heart of the mystery of our own being.
B.H. Fairchild, author of The Arrival of the Future, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest and The Art of...