“The poems of Lee Peterson’s In the Hall of North American Mammals explore the haunting, dangerous borders between story and reality, domestic and wild, mother and child. These poems are meditations crafted in the terror of familial love. And they are bold navigations, crossing liminal spaces, using a luminous intensity of voice to map intimacy, mortality. With lyric acuity they sound the seams between worlds, revealing mother as both ‘witch and protector,’ the story and its teller, one who must perform on the highwire and pray for feet fastened to the ground. Peterson’s deft poems cross a ropewalk of mother-love, knowing what they dare. Hold your breath for their fierce power.” —Sally Rosen Kindred, author of Where the Wolf (Back cover)
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