Publisher's Synopsis
In Blue Guide, Lee Briccetti is as much archeologist as tour guide as she excavates the layers of her life and reassembles the shards into poems that are stunning in their lyric wisdom. She moves easily, albeit restlessly, between past and present and here and there, from the streets of ancient Rome to post-9/11 lower Manhattan, ultimately concluding that "The dead / always tell us live." Through this journey, she constructs a new architecture of the soul that realizes "In this happiness we build each other-"
