Poetry readers in the know have been waiting a decade for this book, the second by Szybist. Her first book, Granted, was among the most remarkable debuts of the new century. Szybist is a skeptic who thinks a lot about faith, a believer in doubt, though as a series of "Announcement" poems attest, she finds God all around — in everything from the distracted discourse of former President Bush to the sound of "a vacuum / start[ing] up next door." She's also a restless formal

—Craig Morgan Teicher