Halfborn Woman, by Colleen Higgs

Halfborn Woman is a chronicle of a woman's journey towards her life and towards wholeness. The poems explore the strangeness and the ordinariness of the poet's encounters with herself and the world. These poems are quirky, funny, moving, human. They reveal the darkness and anguish of intimacy without losing faith in the redemptive power of relationships, "being happy is not a thread or a quilt or a road/ it's like bees buzzing on a hot afternoon/ separately, then disappearing."