The family connections in Cynthia Atkins" IN THE EVENT OF FULL DISCLOSURE are intimate, both entwining and empowering the rich experience these poems convey. "I"ve faked it and faked it well./ I hear our ancestors yelling / from the mental ward of hell," declares Cynthia Atkins near the start of IN THE EVENT OF FULL DISCLOSURE, a book that explores what it means when mental illness becomes close as blood. Family offers both comfort and disquiet. In these elegant, beautifully observed poems, Atkins considers the burden of being a daughter, a sibling, a mother, and-most of all-a poet charged with making sense of "indecipherable lists," of wars domestic and national, and of the fact that all of us are "born in a trick of love.""-Jehanne Dubrow "I like the easy and big-hearted familiarity with the reader that Cynthia Atkins shows in her poetry. She doesn"t keep us at arm"s length. She invites us right in, an act that lends confidence and helps to break down the barriers between writer...