Smile takes the reader on a one-woman journey through the terrors and vicissitudes of growing old. This is a monologue for the 21st century, a treatise on appearance and reality, and the acceptance of
Part distilled observation, part imaginative act, part spiritual expedition, the lyrically-idiosyncratic poems in Startled Night plumb the struggle of integrating the shadow, of coming into personhood
Set in Santa Cruz, California; San Remo, Italy; Paris, France; and a fictional town called Pottersville, North Carolina from the 1950s through the 1980s, Claiming Kin tells the story of two intertwine
