Cullen's interests in folklore, myth, and popular song are everywhere evident in the poems she has published over the past decade. Collected as A Bone in My Throat and Strange Familiar, her poems are drawn to the narrative turns and dramatic twists of stories that tell us much about ourselves--and on which our first efforts at making sense of the world are often based. The best of those earlier books is
gathered here, together with a generous selection of new poems.