"Inside this collection lies the whole world. . . . Readers will return to the poet, and this collection, to be awakened and consoled again and again."

-Mom Egg Review

"A book that speaks to the courage required to live in an uncertain world."

-Emily Tuszynska, author of Surfacing

"Driven by sweet longing and love . . . Kalisz celebrates the everyday, while dreading what might interrupt it. We celebrate with her."

-Jim Daniels, author of Perp Walk

"Kalisz chronicles her rural family's domesticity with a tender precision that withstands headwinds of memory, love, dread, mourning, and the quotidian."

-D.R. James, author of Mobius Trip and Flip Requiem

"A seamless tapestry . . . Kalisz's poems speak a clear language in pure song."

-Linda Nemec Foster, author of Bone Country

"Perfectly pitched and musically phrased, Kalisz humbly comforts us as she enables us to realize that maintenance with ever-present dread is love."

-Jack Ridl, author of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch

"A finely wrought book . . . Kalisz finds solace and joy in the midst of difficulties."

-Patricia Clark, author of O Lucky Day