Foreword Magazine Book of the Year (Poetry) 2003, Finalist

SEBA Best Book of the Year (Poetry) 2003, Finalist

University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series

Dannye Romine Powell writes of marriage, parenthood, and temptation-of love in its many forms. Her lyrical, imagistic poems bring into sudden focus the subtle shifts of understanding and emotion within intimacy. In her reworking of the primal story of Eve and Adam and throughout all the poems, she elucidates how everyday life can sustain a family or sunder it. With clarity and care, she illuminates the world.

Dannye Romine Powell is also the author of At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home (Arkansas, 1994) and Parting the Curtain: Interviews with Southern Writers (John Blair, 1994).