Talisman

In psychological portraits stunning in their precision, Lisa
Krueger brings her observational powers to bear on the domestic and its
darknesses—childbirth, play, sex, and family picnics, as well as abuse,
disability, adultery, and mental illness. These poems magnify small, everyday
redemptions as signs—talismans—of human potential, and ask us to think about
our choices, to use language as a force to press against truth.