What Sound Does It Make

Winner of the 2007 Concrete Wolf Award

From its opening lines, "I think I'm all right again,/ I said, after two glasses// of red. . ." to the very last image, ". . .He ruffles &/ I dig my feet into the dents he made," Erin Malone's What Sound Does It Make captivates with lyrical language and acute personal truth. These are poems of intense concentration and deeply focused emotion. Motherhood is the chiaroscuro geography through which the speaker navigates. This journey of self through other and self toward other is heroic, germane, and poignant.

- Lana Hechtman Ayers,
Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series Editor