Brings together representative works from Sina Queyras's poetic oeuvre. The introduction situates Queyras within the contemporary international field of poetry and poetics and provides explanations of each of Queyras's collections. Queyras's afterword is an example of her work in the field of the literary and feminist form of the manifesto.

Sina Queyras is an accomplished poet and essayist. She edited the first anthology of Canadian poetry published by an American press (Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets). Between 2005 and 2007 she co-curated the path-breaking feminist Belladonna* reading series in New York and was instrumental in bringing Canadian and American poets into conversation. She has published six books of poetry and a novel, Autobiography of Childhood (2011). She received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award for Lemon Hound (2006). Her most recent book of poetry is MxT (2014).