Dinner with Emerson

Poetry. Wendy Mnookin's poems are deft reports from the unkempt country of love. Her fierce lyrics, her 'choreography / of desire' shakes us again and again with intelligence, humor, and ardency. Mnookin's work bears abiding fidelity to Emerson's imperative to write it on the heart. This is a radiant collection that gathers us through 'whatever love has been rained on us all.'--Peter Shippy