The Heart Factory

The Heart Factory invites the reader close, giving glimpses of domesticity, desire mingling with tenderness. The poems here unflinchingly portray the everyday ("Marriage on a Bad Day") and the personal ("Bipolar for Couples") without veering into sentimentality. Sarah Lilius shows us the anatomy of a marriage, raw and difficult, beautiful and muscular. -Sarah Ann Winn, author of "Portage."