Poetry. The familial response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of this award-winning first collection. Narrating a suspensful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy, these lyric poems are marked by clarity and restraint. The poems accelerate and recede, recording a transit of grief that reveals the deep "response of witness, of recognizing what must be acknowledged and of having the courage and the care to say so"--Robert Creely.