Carolyn Steinhoff’s meditations on mind, body and their complicated intersection are moving and original, and important. Her perceptions are consistently acute and her language is fine-tuned, but in confronting the passage of time (or other impossible aspects of the human condition), the approach is straightforward, the voice a ‘speaking’ one, sometimes quiet, sometimes louder, always colloquial and human. I’m tempted to say—I will say—that she raises naked feeling to something like an elegance

— Charles North, Everything and Other Poems

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