At the center of these poems reside the eternally-connected bodies that make up family: a father dying as a granddaughter is born, a mother’s body laboring in birth, a child’s growing body slowly revealing a story of autism. Grey Brown writes of these matters with extraordinary courage and great beauty. She pitches her tent
at the entrance to the hermit’s cave, and peers
in with her poet’s eye. Here, she finds a kind of redeeming music in the fleeting imagery of small, coherent moments in her own daughter’s life, as well as an appreciation for the day to day struggles of all people with autism and of those who care for them. An important and healing book of poetry.

— Kate Daniels

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