"In this book, Grace Paley's celebrated gifts as a story-teller have entered a lyric fire and emerged unscathed. These are wonderful, unswerving narratives of ordeal and grace. Here are poems about friendship, about ageing and the approach of death. And in every one of them, her familiar wit shines. These poems will travel far: they will be on nightstands, in backpacks, on email lists, in conversation and memory and soliloquy for a long time to come." –Eavan Boland
"All over the world, in languages you never heard of, she is read as a master storyteller in the great tradition: People love life more because of her writing." –
Vivian Gornick
