"In "Cadabra," Jen Kindbom pulls the whimsical, the mysterious, and the beautiful out of the shadows, the common, and the forgotten, holds them both, like a butterfly and its chrysalis, in her palm and says, 'See?'" " --Sarah M. Wells, Author of "Pruning Burning Bushes

"Jen Kindbom's lyric poems address the whole world-natural, familial, spiritual, and even, in a refracted way, political. But the site of this seeing and knowledge is the poet's unique one-the fragile, lovely home of the body, rendered sensuously present in language." --"David Wright, Author, "A Liturgy for Stones " and" The...