ReviewJoseph's lines are lean, musical, and sometimes funny, creating a personal song that weaves family history, feminism, and racial identity into an honest and bold collection: very much the poetry that we need right now.--Brian Fanelli, Pedestal MagazineJoseph explores the life of an African-American woman, yet her poetry is extremely touchable and relatable to all readers no matter what race or background. Joseph's vivid imagery sticks with you even after you've put her book down. Her humor and her confessions are her strengths as she explores the intricate, frustrating, and beautiful life of a woman.--juliasbookreviews (Julia Cirignano, juliasbookreviews)Joseph does not obfuscate, yet delivers a classic poet's chapbook, if such a thing exists. She's learned to leave out the parts that other people skip, skimming instead into all that matters to her but lets you make sense of it. There are gem stars in this constellation.--the Eric Hoffer AwardAbout the AuthorAllison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (NightBallet Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (Word Poetry), The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press), Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press, forthcoming) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). Her most recent full-length collection, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman was published by Red Hen Press in June 2018. She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.