"Intrinsic to the poetry is a contemporary exploration of the erasures of women that continues to happen today, especially as they age: Amelia, where did your bones go... Gilbert asks in a rhetorical verse conversation to Earhart - from one poet to another - that takes flight. Lines that zoom, 45 bank, stall, vertical bank/glide, dive 38 spiral, tailspin, side/slip, split 's' turn, forward slip/barrel roll, loop inside, loop outside into some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Amelia's death. Even though it has been more than eighty years since Earhart's been missing, Gilbert writes Lady Bird at the same age that Amelia was when she disappeared."--