COMFORT

<p><strong>...a vibrant exploration of the tactile world.... <em>Comfort </em>is a book we need especially now.... -Matthew Dickman author of <em>Husbandry</em></strong></p><p><strong>...endlessly inventive varied and brave poems... -Amy Miller author of <em>Astronauts</em></strong></p><p>In this rare and intimate debut poetry chapbook Peggy Perdue cultivates the rocky but fertile soil of grief motherhood and longing.</p><p>These poems delve into the relationships that shape us from friends and family we've loved and lost and the places we've called home to our most essential selves. <em>Comfort </em>sifts through the sorrows of not only death but also life how each event gives birth to one possibility while another potential is laid to waste. Perdue's lyrical narrative poems stretch to the sky while keeping their roots planted firmly in the earth.</p>