Praise

Many of Elizabeth Holmes's poems begin "in the country of pain" and move through hauntedness, even terror, toward connection with the reader. The vivid, spare lines take us through narratives of forgiveness, of discovery through loss. These are poems about the imperatives of love, and the surprise of loyalties, and they give us a sense of what it means to "fly with others." Here is a distinctive new voice, thrilling in its rightness.
-- Robert Morgan

Review

Elizabeth Holmes makes it new by looking very hard at the old, by being willing, as her alter-ego the photographer articulates, to wait for the right moment. But she makes it refreshingly new with her occasional flickers of irony . . . or the sheer, subversive pleasure
of internal awareness. . . . A very accomplished first book.
-- Judith Kitchen in The Georgia Review

Original publication

Many of these poems first appeared in Bound, Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Greensboro Review, Kansas Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and Wind.