Sarah Vap, award-winning author of Dummy Fire and American Spikenard,
dazzles again with this third collection. Vap celebrates the mysteries
of pregnancy with wonder, fear, sorrow, and joy. Like counting the beads
on a rosary, she takes us along a trail of connected couplets, building
a concrete yet mythic exploration of the body as it prepares to bring
another body into the world. Alice Notley writes, "This is a poetry of
light, edge, and coherence, and it is beautiful." And Cynthia Hogue
adds, "I am in awe of the rare beauty of these poems."