Can we love a place as we love a person? Is it possible for a city-naked and vulnerable-to offer itself to us as a lover might? This collection of poems explores the relationship between humans and geography, that tender geography where history, myth and sense of place merge in a flash of understanding. Whether we find ourselves in a bakery, church, factory or alley, alone or with others, these poems invite us to experience what is both present and possible. Love Letters to a Paper City may resonate especially for readers who grew up with myths and fables, as each poem suggests a much larger story. Although the imagery is quite specific to the poet's beloved Paper City, once we enter the gate all of us will recognize ourselves--and each other-as neighbors. Paper City is a real place, one of the first planned industrial cities in the nation and a hub of 19th century New England papermaking and silk production. It exists clearly on historical and present day maps of western Massachusetts. But it is not location the poet wants us to understand, but a sense of place that can only be known through memory, and felt as myth.