A glimmering collection of poems that find solace in beauty, mythology, and the stars while enduring familial struggles and loss.

Deborah Brown's first book, Walking the Dog's Shadow (BOA Editions, 2009), won the A. J. Poulin Jr. Award from BOA Editions and a New Hampshire Literary Award. With Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, she edited Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2005). With Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, she translated the poems in Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2010). She lives in Warner, NH.