In the Salt

I was astonished by the daring and virtuosity of this collection. In the Salt is part love song to a child, part homage to Homer's Penelope. If "Motherhood is a kind of wildness, a loosening," we find in these poems a painful, tentative hope, the world pulled to tatters by crisis, each morning the threads taken up again.

-Bethany Reid, author of 2023 Sally Albiso Award Winner The Pear Tree: elegy for a farm

In the Salt is one of those rarest experiences that haunts the reader long after setti...