by Rachel Contreni Flynn

These poems, set within a sturdy midwestern landscape, are about loyalty and abandonment, disappointment and joy. They leap and startle and switch back, always returning with a clear-eyed desire for redemption in all its forms: passion, solace and forgiveness.

Ms. Contreni Flynn is a storyteller with an uncanny gift for transforming the everyday details of our lives, using language that shocks and surprises. Says Stephen Dunn,”Ice, Mouth, Song has a haunting beauty to it…. Flynn will not pretty-up her world, nor will she be defeated by its harshness. She’s written a book that makes easier the difficult task of judging contests.”