Songs from a Mountain

"Amanda Nadelberg's poems . . . are jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical….which in the immediate reading is almost pure music."—Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

From "Matson":

So what patent reason is there to doubt

the color of a person's hair, there is sun

and timpani. Rubber wood bone silk

hemp or ivory I will cut my own in June

but in May endured the next yesterday

I've already now forgotten what all the

men I'll ever know smelled like. Maybe

devotion on the beach in the middle of

the week which is dumbed down with

planets imagining song.