Explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics.

Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. Her poems have appeared in The Madison Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cream City Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. In 2005 she was selected as the winner of the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize.