“Lyric, brave, and downright gorgeous, Heather Treseler’s debut collection of poems pierces to the very core. . . . These poems shatter the oppressions of silence and invisibility note after note, line after line. . . . They will leave you stinging. They will leave you singing. They will leave you seeking within the tableaux of your own heart ‘what craves flight, / crowning sky. Declaring itself, I.'”

— LAUREN K. ALLEYNE, author of Honeyfish and professor of English and executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University