"Kathleen Aguero’s poetry is startling: full of childlike wonder, then knowledge and anger brought by surviving as a city woman. Aguero never loses her whimsical perspective, and the poems rise far above flat rhetoric, full of grace and charm.” --Joan Norris "The eye that sees things as they are disputes with an imagination that sees things as they could be; Miriam Goodman’s poems are wry, loving, dissatisfied.” --Celia Gilbert