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Snively seems wholly transformed by each of her muses and to have entered into their psychic mysteries.” -Publishers Weekly

The poet Emily Dickinson's love affair with the eminent Judge Otis Phillips Lord, eighteen years older and her father's best friend, begins in her childhood and evolves over the years into passion. As Emily and Phil struggle with her need for privacy and his power as a man of the world, they stir up the troubled Dickinson family. Despite illness and the hostility of their greedy and jealous relatives, Emily contrives a secret rendezvous in Sal...

Wit and sorrow run throughout the poems of Susan Snively's third collection. In poems about divorce, family, and travel, Snively is "a woman holding a balance" between "the little I ask for" and "the little I get", sorting "the indifference and the rage from the secret joy". Humor, sometimes directed at herself, is a source of joy in "Too Late", where Snively sorts through childhood ambitions -- ballet dancer, famous actress, nuclear physicist...