bWinner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize br Winner of the 2017 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetryb from the Texas Institute of Letters br Miriam Bird Greenberg's stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth I'd spent my childhood in a house made of bees on hot days honey dripped through cracks in the ceiling, she writes. Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg's experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos, and others living on society's edges. Beneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men she writes Everyone knows what happens to women who hitchhike, constantly trying a door to the other world made of lake bottom or low forest, abandoned house even wild animals