This book is for the reader who struggles with the tension between the small tender loves of daily life and the violence of the structures that contain it. A moving portrayal of Kinship and family structures and the sometimes inherent violence within tem). A prime example of anti-pedantic, politically engaged poetry concerned with feminism, leftism, contemporary feminist confessionalism, and New Narrative.A book that complicates and adds to conversations around queerness and categories of queerness. Draws on music as the soundtrack to experience including The Grateful Dead and Van Morrison. Author is a central member of The San Francisco Bay Area poetry and writing communities as a poet, teacher, scholar, editor, curator and mentor. She is the Director of Graduate Programs Literatures and Languages Mills College and Creative Writing Faculty. She is an editor with Krupskaya Press and edited the anthology, Bay Poetics: An Anthology of Bay Area Writing. With the poet, Juliana Spahr, she has written several important academic papers and books on demographic disparities (gender, race class, etc.) within the MFA system. Formally, the work is engaged in thinking about lyric verse as a tradition and hopefully intervening in it.