by Baron Wormser

...The suffering which American life is devoted to pushing away is here on full view--not as something freakish but rather as something truly human. The poems register many tones--Spang's inventiveness is impressive--but the final tone is wonder and love, the feeling for the mystery of a life and the enormous commitment required to tend to a failing body. This is a book rooted in caring, a book for all of us.

by Jessica Jacobs

...Read these poems and hold those you love close, reminded anew that such love is everything, and will not last.

by Betsy Sholl

We don't get easy answers in these poems, but the honesty of loss and the rich solace of love between a mother and son, and the son's partner, who has become to her a second son. In the end, as the poet says, "The world is 'yes.' So many 'yeses'."