Mostly Sweet, Lovely, Human Things

Mostly Sweet, Lovely, Human Things feels like a joyful, tender, eternal embrace. These poems are full of wonder and a desire for wholeness: recollections of girlhood, the poet now in a knowing season of life, no longer afraid of death. The poems feel wise and free. Marchand writes, "[Poetry] divines understanding / of the fledgling self/ and by showing us to ourselves, / saves us from our own extinctions." This is a marvelous book of delightful sweetness.

-Lee Herrick, California Poet Laurea...