Copper Canyon Press, paperback
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
Publisher Marketing: Winner of the 2007 James Laughlin Award as the best second book published in the United States.
"Rough and lyrical, her music is part r&b, part madrigal... a full-throated language that both croons and scrapes." --Village Voice "With Blakean force and originality, she remakes love-poetry... What emerges is clearly one of the most original contemporary voices." -Virginia Quarterly Review "Edgy and erotic, characterized by bravado and odd beauty... a dazzling first book." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
