A gift from my sister, Hiestand’s volume was published as a result of winning the National Poetry Series competition.  Heistand has a day job as the Communications Director for the Department of the Humanities at MIT, and is a photographer and artist as well as a poet.  She describes this volume as having poems about “particle physics, men and ducks”.  Some wonderful poetry here, e.g. On Nothing which ends with “ Is it too much or too little love/for the world that moves one to despair/in this life about the despair of nothing after life/ which this life briefly—badly—interrupts.”