Dark Alphabet by Jennifer Maier

Madeline DeFrees recommends Dark Alphabet, poems by Jennifer Maier: "Jennifer Maier's colloquial language settles you comfortably into the passenger seat for a journey full of surprising turns. The poems are triggered by ordinary events: a friend's asking why she doesn't write novels; the sight of ducks in mating season. This first collection is a sophisticated blend of wit, intellect, feeling, and perception as mysterious as nightfall and as fresh as daybreak." (Southern Illinois)