From the very first pages in this collection, the reader is immersed in a fearlessly detailed, masterfully textured symphony of poems that hold nothing back. Cynthia Edlow plunges boldly into an unrelenting quest to make sense of a universe that is both beautiful and troubling. Hers is a dauntless journey that reveals-at times painfully, sometimes with humor-a probing spirit with a passion for life, cognizant of its fleeting preciousness.