As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine.

"We see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself."-Andrew Hudgins

Aimee Nezhukumatathil was the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the -Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in poetry and -creative non-fiction from Ohio State University. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York in Fredonia.