"This is simply a brilliant collection of poems. Margo Wheaton is one of the finest poets to come out of the Maritimes in a generation." David Adams Richards "Wheaton's work is suffused with a remarkable compassion: subtle, hard won, and mature. It refuses to compete with literary fashion; it simply transcends it. This is a stunning debut — a work of technical sophistication and great emotional integrity." Jan "With her recurring interest in the limitations and possibilities of poetry, that anti-Romantic possibility of failure most notable in those poems that come closest to nature poetry and lyric, Wheaton joins an ongoing poetic conversation most notable in t "Wheaton coaxes the reader with quiet grace to a clearing in the sorrowful forest from which we can see the house, the lights and the way home." Atlantic Books Today "There is holiness in the stillness of the wild, as it becomes clear in Margo Wheaton's new collection. Her poems speak of the ways that the earth's movements translate through human bodies." Foreword Reviews "The collection often works with a tone of dark mystery, but in and around those moments are moments of romance and sensuality, moments that exalt touch to the highest sense. And in this sensual experience of life, there is victory. It's a quiet, subdued
