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“Here are eight Arizona poets who’ve been working together for years honing their skills, poets committed to shaping the matter of their real lives into music—eight accomplished poets writing poems that are bell-clear, writing poems made out of the memories and passions that haunt them, the moments that have shaped them and define them. You will not be bored here by rhetorical flummery and affectation; this is an engaging, honest, thoroughly readable anthology. I would not be surprised if you found yourself moved by a good many of these poems, and now and again find your heart broken in the way that authentic poetry can sometimes break one’s heart.” —Steve Kowit, In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop