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Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize

A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes,
sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peak

On the night of the summer solstice, Obadai Bashim encounters Jules Sterling, a young engineering sage.

Just off work one wintery evening, EMT Jack Waters comes across a blazing building, and he sets out to do his job. A day later he wakes up in a hospital, suffering from severe burns.

What does love sound like? If you hear it, will you heed its call? Police officer Jordan Waters is recovering from a shooting by moving to a new apartment in a new town and taking a new job.

Duncan Kerr is the art director of Enamored Press, an erotic romance publisher based in Seattle.

Piper is a ballet dancer who has lost his footing—literally. Now his dreams are shot and he’s depressed enough that his best friend, Sage, lures him into a night of drinking and games.

Magic is in the air when Gus Goodwin, a pagan shopkeeper and owner of the Four Corners’ occult shop, meets Niall Valentine, a mysterious PI investigating the disappearance of a local witch named Jo