Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor Lisa Martin is the author of One Crow Sorrow (2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.

• 1 Believing is not the same as being savedI5 One hundred ways to build the world6 One thing7 Firsts and lasts8 Pool9 Map for the road home10 Memorial at Horseshoe Lake11 The Ascension12 Perspective13 Sonnet for what we resolve into—14 A solstice is an astronomical event15 Story16 Return17 River18 Bill of Rights19 Singing in the spirit20 The song of the spirit drawing near to the body21 A small sigh, a hard thought, enters22 Individualism23 Bearings24 Survival and all other possibles26 If we understand the laws at all27 Still life with white roses28 Easter at the zoo for agnostics30 Learning to speak and not to speak31 Things I can and cannot do32 Preserve of the useful33 Sonnet for the distance between us34 Lightening up35 Birth weight37 Lessening38 Stories are for transforming ourselves40 Some of what we know about airports in the 21st century42 Vanity44 Conversions46 What I believe now about us thenII51 Dog years52 The opposite of the heart53 Expiration55 Separated57 I-Thou59 Adultery60 Argument61 On being in love62 Fidelity64 Weeping birch65 Theology66 Biology67 The fine thinking69 Heart70 Friendship72 Sonnet to myself and a stranger73 Incandescent light75 Elegy78 Ecstasis83 Circles84 Dancing the path to understanding85 Breathing in the northern forest87 Acknowledgements

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 02, 2017

Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor Lisa Martin is the author of One Crow Sorrow (2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.

• 1 Believing is not the same as being savedI5 One hundred ways to build the world6 One thing7 Firsts and lasts8 Pool9 Map for the road home10 Memorial at Horseshoe Lake11 The Ascension12 Perspective13 Sonnet for what we resolve into—14 A solstice is an astronomical event15 Story16 Return17 River18 Bill of Rights19 Singing in the spirit20 The song of the spirit drawing near to the body21 A small sigh, a hard thought, enters22 Individualism23 Bearings24 Survival and all other possibles26 If we understand the laws at all27 Still life with white roses28 Easter at the zoo for agnostics30 Learning to speak and not to speak31 Things I can and cannot do32 Preserve of the useful33 Sonnet for the distance between us34 Lightening up35 Birth weight37 Lessening38 Stories are for transforming ourselves40 Some of what we know about airports in the 21st century42 Vanity44 Conversions46 What I believe now about us thenII51 Dog years52 The opposite of the heart53 Expiration55 Separated57 I-Thou59 Adultery60 Argument61 On being in love62 Fidelity64 Weeping birch65 Theology66 Biology67 The fine thinking69 Heart70 Friendship72 Sonnet to myself and a stranger73 Incandescent light75 Elegy78 Ecstasis83 Circles84 Dancing the path to understanding85 Breathing in the northern forest87 Acknowledgements

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 02, 2017

Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor Lisa Martin is the author of One Crow Sorrow (2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.

• 1 Believing is not the same as being savedI5 One hundred ways to build the world6 One thing7 Firsts and lasts8 Pool9 Map for the road home10 Memorial at Horseshoe Lake11 The Ascension12 Perspective13 Sonnet for what we resolve into—14 A solstice is an astronomical event15 Story16 Return17 River18 Bill of Rights19 Singing in the spirit20 The song of the spirit drawing near to the body21 A small sigh, a hard thought, enters22 Individualism23 Bearings24 Survival and all other possibles26 If we understand the laws at all27 Still life with white roses28 Easter at the zoo for agnostics30 Learning to speak and not to speak31 Things I can and cannot do32 Preserve of the useful33 Sonnet for the distance between us34 Lightening up35 Birth weight37 Lessening38 Stories are for transforming ourselves40 Some of what we know about airports in the 21st century42 Vanity44 Conversions46 What I believe now about us thenII51 Dog years52 The opposite of the heart53 Expiration55 Separated57 I-Thou59 Adultery60 Argument61 On being in love62 Fidelity64 Weeping birch65 Theology66 Biology67 The fine thinking69 Heart70 Friendship72 Sonnet to myself and a stranger73 Incandescent light75 Elegy78 Ecstasis83 Circles84 Dancing the path to understanding85 Breathing in the northern forest87 Acknowledgements

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 02, 2017