For Want of Water, and Other Poems

This collection of poems is a lyric narrative that explores the role of addicts in the United States--those addicted to the very same drugs at the center of war--with M?xico's violent experience through the personal story of a woman whose first husband is addicted to crack-cocaine. Her neighbor also addicted to crystal methamphetamine, her marriage unravels as the murders grow just a city--but the territory of a country--away. These poems cross metaphorical deserts of loss and love, grief and desire, where "a tree soaks morning / where we are calling our dying from the dark," and the book autopsies a woman's life in order to find out how, despite pain, we can cling to one another.