Birthstones in the Province of Mercy Eva Zimet plants and insects rise to

plants and insects rise to the challenge and are still adapting

Some Vermonters turned to smuggling

its tantalizing vision of life beyond

the Grand Canal

This book will give many hours of pleasurable reading and browsing

Birthstones in the Province of Mercy Eva Zimet plants and insects rise toBy: Bo Hee Moon Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, a tender, yearning collection of poems that pieces together identity with the different shapes absence can take. "Blurry eyes mean a longing for home," writes Bo Hee Moon in her prize winning collection, "but we're unsure what home means." A South Korean adoptee raised in the United States, the poet reaches for language to confront the complex, myriad emotions that accompany understanding identity