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This collection of poems is tough enough to peel the paint off a battleship. They take no prisoners and leave no emotion untouched as readers move through this remarkable writer's representations of deep moments, startling revelations, and scary insights. At the same time, I found myself laughing out loud at the remarkable capacity Taylor has for looking through all that pain and anguish and desire and disappointment and wonder, looking right through it, right at the reader, winking, and saying, "Really?"Her capacity to work with language is stunning. The verse forms she employs are startling and fresh, engaging readers at evey turn in events and emotions they do not expect. Inviting them to enter a world that is beautiful and painful in the way the ancient Greeks understood beauty and pain to be essential to the aesthetic experience.It is a book well worth the cost and time. Read it slowly. Then read it again. You won't be sorry.