being from being broke open

being from being broke open ruminates on the crucial questions of being human: Beyond family, where do we belong? What is "home"? Who are we? How do we live? How do we go on living? From a childhood in which home felt like shame and woods were haven, the natural world - trees, birds, seasons, water, mud - offered up the language these poems use to navigate them. In each poem, sensory experience opens, petal by petal, to reveal inherent depth and meaning. Yet, each clinched circle of underst...