Qustions of geography, ethnic identity, and the corssing of cultural borders keep company with poetic form in this first collection of work. “These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial . Susan Rich is a caring citizen of every heartland.”—Naomi Shihab Nye “Susan Rich gives us a collection of poems...generous in the range and power of their emotion.”—J. M. Coetzee