content: A collection of well-crafted poems that take the reader across rural landscapes, through hospitals and henhouses, and into the bright, ever hopeful minds of people. There's Joe, who remembers in his Alzheimer fog the brilliant June day of courtship long ago. There's Ida, who seeks comfort from her chickens. And there's cocktail-swilling Winnie, a God-talking rooster, a punk teenager,and a refrigerator so new that it too is practically living and breathing. This is a lovely book, peopled with intriguing characters, and well deserving of its awards.