In this collection of poetry, Sandra Sloss Giedeman writes about growing up in St. Louis and the Midwest, painting word portraits of the steel mill town where she grew up and the people who lived and worked there. Alongside stunning verbal images of the California landscape, particularly southern California where she's lived her whole adult life, she also writes about loss, grief and growing up Catholic in a large family. This collection of 51 beautiful poems will take you on an emotional tour of the country as seen through the eyes of this profound poet.