"Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing, into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this."?Naomi Shihab Nye"Landau registers the intens
"A thrilling meditation on the passages of a woman's life."O, The Oprah MagazineLandau's killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plathleaping spark after spark, growing
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly: "Through the cadence of these poems, which sometimes resemble lullabies in their dreaminess and gorgeous lyricism, Landau captures the ways humans persist, despit
Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa--mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and