Praise for the Author Melissa Kwasny's poems are so exact in their movement and presentation, so fresh in their botanical and observatory language . . . It is difficult for me to express my admiration and enthusiasm. --Christopher Howell Melissa Kwasny's work serves as a brilliant tonic, reminding us of the essential gravitas of poems of distinction. --Albert Goldbarth As nearly all our great poets tell us, it is by attending scrupulously to other that we best understand ourselves. So it is that in Melissa Kwasny's tender, brilliantly described encounters. --Patricia Goedicke