We all know what happened to Icarus, but what if there was one who lived to tell the tale? ?Wanda Campbell's fourth collection of poetry offers alternatives to flying too close to the sun and sinking into the sea.? Beginning with ekphrastic poems responding to works by female artists such as Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo, Campbell considers the ways the love of art and the art of love help us to transcend the labyrinths of our lives.

Wanda Campbell was born in South India and came to Canada at the age of ten. With her husband and three daughters she has camped in the National Parks in every province in Canada and has lived and worked in New Brunswick and Ontario. She now lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where she teaches Creative Writing at Acadia University in view of the highest tides in the world. She has published the novel Hat Girl, and three collections of poetry, Sky Fishing, Looking For Lucy and Grace. She has also edited literature anthologies for Penguin and an anthology of early Canadian women poets called Hidden Rooms. Her creative work has appeared in journals from coast to coast, including Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Descant, existere, Fiddlehead, Gaspereau Review, Grain, Harpweaver, New Quarterly, Queen's Quarterly, Room of One's Own, Vallum, Wascana Review, Windsor Review and in the anthologies Body Language and Landmarks.