The first book in a series, Miriam Walsh's poetry ranges all styles and mood extremes. Verse for the nearly driven mad or the just plain mad. Reading more like a diary, this series is full of confessions (and not all of them the writer's). In "Beautifully Alien Refraction" we watch as both poet and poetry take on strange but familiar configurations like changling beasts searching frantically for the right skin. All too alien and all too human.