American Spelling

In American Spelling, Andrea Stone has fashioned a brilliant mosaic narrative. Each lyric is a finely faceted gem of character, observation, wordplay, or insight. Taken together, in Stone’s complex and clever pattern, they compose a story of loss, abandonment, and the slow and fitful movements of forgiveness, never losing sight of language itself as the means both of division and reunion. – Michael Thurston, author of Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry