Midwestern Poet's Incomplete Guide to Symbolism

<p>The lines in this book are vespers a prayer to the broken hearted. We are swept up in the beauty of form the spaces in between the images of a red-tail hawk and a cantering horse. The book masterfully hones the sounds of grief gutteral and raw flowing through a body a mouth a soul.</p><p>--Sarah Sandman author of The Sinew of 47 Years</p><p><br></p><p>Out of grief out of longing out of her ravishing gift for noticing comes this numinous and memorable debut by Erica Anderson-Senter whose sensibility has been born out of her gift for surviving. I adore the rough music of this book its candid appraisals and this poet's fearless descriptions of the sources of fear sadness love life.</p><p>--Mark Wunderlich author of God of Nothingness</p><p><br></p><p>These poems root us deep in Midwestern landscapes as we encounter litanies psalms and a lush unsentimental tenderness that sings out that swift / startling joy in the same breath as gutting loss. This is an extraordinary courageous debut collection.</p><p>--Emily Mohn-Slate author of The Falls</p>