Poetry. "Poems filled with shimmering moments, built by craft from true perceptions of what underlines the everyday - baseball a piano played by the same hands, windows shaking the throat of night, 'a collage of selves pasted together in sleep' - Kaplan's work vividly colors the evanescent 'a shadow of imagination stretched upon the water, a cold bed full of moonlight' - and gives dream and contradiction the weightiness of life. Her book is her home; each poem is a room; time and again 'in this room we learn the center/of conversation like a marital art.' Reading her, you give yourself over into her hands, and confidently, reassuringly, patiently, wisely she leads you closer to 'the secret of desire that makes your mind fresh and curious" -F.D.Reeve.