Suggie the cat is somewhat cynical as she tells of life's experiences through her perspective. This is a delightfully amusing collection of letters written to give joyfulness and pleasure to people. Suggie is a faithful pet to Lisa and is terribly jealous of her husband, Terry to the point of being scornful for every opportunity he gives her. She tells the facts of everyday life as she sees fit and delivers her disdain to all involved except for Lisa who she elevates to the highest rank. Suggie has an opinion on countless topics from friendship to love at first sight to embarrassing moments. This book is sure to put a smile on your face and produce a cheerfulness that can be very contagious.

Proceeding from Helene Cixous's charge to "kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing," The Fix forges that woman's reckoning with her violent past, with her sexuality, and with a future unmoored from the trappings of domestic life. These poems of lyric beauty and unflinching candor negotiate the terrain of contradictory desire-often to darkly comedic effect. In encounters with strangers in dive bars and on highway shoulders, and through ekphrastic engagement with visionaries like William Blake, Jose Clemente Orozco, and the Talking Heads, this book seeks the real beneath the dissembling surface. Here, nothing is fixed, but grace arrives by diving into the complicated past in order to find a way to live, now.