A selection of poems by Alice Burdick in which she examines the dangers of dogma, women's rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes rare work from the beginning of her career as well as previously unpublished material.

Alice Burdick is the author of four poetry collections, including Book of Short Sentences (2016). Her work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines and was shortlisted for the Lemonhound Poetry Prize in 2014. She is the co-owner of Lexicon Books in Lunenburg and lives in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.Alessandro Porco is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the editor of Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro's Poems by Gerard Legro, and he compiled and wrote the afterword to Steve Venright's The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent: Selected & New Writings.