Qustions of geography, ethnic identity, and the corssing of cultural
borders keep company with poetic form in this first collection of work.
"These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they
bring is crucial . Susan Rich is a caring citizen of every
heartland."--Naomi Shihab Nye
"Susan Rich gives us a collection of poems...generous in the range and
power of their emotion."--J. M. Coetzee