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Poreba's lyric voice, style, and point of view kept me returning to these powerful poems.

—Pádraig Ó Tuama, Judge, Orison Poetry Prize

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Christine Poreba’s collection hums with splendid clarity, reminding us that our most ardent philosophers of time’s passing are mothers watching their children fall in and out of love with rocks. Her work draws us into a bittersweet desire to return, to stay, to slow.

— Natalie Graham

 

These are beautiful, delicate poems, from a writer dedicated to the holiness of the heart’s affections.

—Patrick Phillips