"Bass's work-about marriage and parenting, illness and recovery, small daily pleasures-cultivates an exuberance that's born of, and balanced by, close watchfulness." -The New York Times
"A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass's lustrous poems." -Booklist
shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.