Heather Ann Shepard

A Hummingbird in the Garage Heather Ann Shepard

In Heather Ann Shepard's poem ?My Mother's Bones, ? she asks if there is ?A place where we can ask the questions that no one is willing to answer.? She created that place in the poems of A Hummingbird in the Garage, her new collection filled with surprise, grace, the weight of absence and loss, and a love for all the inter-woven parts of the world. Whether it's the surprise of a hummingbird out-of-place in a garage or ?the grass remembering your footprints, ? her poems, time and time again, ?make/something/completely new.? In ?Grace, ? she says, ?I think this is what grace sounds like.? Reading A Hummingbird in the Garage, who could answer anything but yes? Antonio Vallone, Publisher, MAMMOTH books; Poetry editor, Pennsylvania English