As it journeys through the author s life, this collection by Anglo-Iranian poet Mimi Khalvati explores childhood, motherhood, loss, eroticism, and the natural world. Lyrical and resonant, this compilationhaunted by the child-self that is never quite left behindcombines some essential selections of Khalvati s previous work with new poems.The poems featuretraditional forms as well asexperiments with the Ghazal, an ancient Persian form comprised of an unrhymed couplet."