***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics’ Circle Award
Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2009
A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions, Museum of Accidents rends the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and places them directly in our laps. The anxieties and elations of motherhood and marriage unfold throughout poems of uncompromising courage, compassion and fever.