"Rooted in narrative," this collection of 71 poems launches "an evocative journey" back through "Depression-era Paterson, New Jersey, that city so connected with poetry in literary history." It offers "a kaleidoscope of images" from the past: her parents dancing to Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Band, "an image captured as though in a glass globe that glows in the light of her father's memories," and "the poet's mother . . . perpetually caught in the glamor of 1930's movies," combine with Balik's "love for her husband, their early courtship and marriage, their children, the daily rituals...