Winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Silver Medal Award for Poetry and the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award.
"...spare, moving and gorgeous. .....When Akers writes of her connection to the natural world, we are reminded of Emily Dickinson's precise yet off-kilter images, and reading Akers, like reading Dickinson, is an awakening. " -- Maggie Trapp, Daily Dose of Lit