Louder Than Everything You Love

Louder Than Everything You Love is about transformation. The narrator in these poems is many: women who talk to the dead, women who mourn dead mothers and grandmothers, women suicides, women who've been raped/escaped rape, women who cradle premature babies, women who suffer depression, women who prepare the bodies of the dead, women who exist between their children's bodily needs ("this body-psalm of need the only holiness I know") and saints' incorruptible bodies.

These women also live inside themselves, contending with the wolves within, asking: "How do I measure the body's gardens form within its bone fences?" The dead, the living and the divine inhabit this collection – they're looking for kinship, remembrance, for some kind of communion. The poems in Louder Than Everything You Love are about the struggle of living in a body, being a parent, trying to find the balance between what our lives on earth mean/what it means to come to terms with dying.