NPR : National Poetry Month Selection: 'Letter Home'

NPR : National Poetry Month Selection: 'Letter Home': "'Letter Home' is from Pamela Alexander's fourth collection, Slow Fire. In the introduction to her book Navigable Waterways, a Yale Younger Poets selection, James Merrill wrote, 'This poet works elegantly, unpredictably, without teasing... Her subjects — heat, air, sex, trees, the peerless dog Pfoxer — [can be] impeccably democratic.'"