The Intimacy of Spoons explores the many metaphors of the spoon: from love and marriage to the spoon of a grave that holds our bodies; from the darkness of loss and night, where “the Big Dipper is nothing but / the oldest spoon pointing us home”; to the darkness of lungs transformed into art. The poems cover a wide variety of topics—cultural, political, familial, and natural—and always, underlying these poems is the song of birds—with broken wings or clear voices, avian muses filling our forests now or long gone. Like the spoons we use every day, the poems of The Intimacy of Spoons return us to everyday stories and objects, common yet profound.

Nickole Brown author of To Those Who Were Our First Gods says this and more about it: “…each poem a spoonful of medicine to administer healing to our broken world.”