False Horizons

This little book holds a mother's unbounded grief in poems graceful and adamant, truthful and amazed. There is never closure after a child's death, Laura Urban Perry teaches us, but street lights and galaxies still shine, sometimes in waters stirred by a kayak paddle. Here is her beautifully rendered transition from one world to another-not beyond great pain but in concert with it.

- Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume and Post Romantic

In False Horizons, Laura Urban Perry uses language as a ...