Spanning oceans and continents, language and the imagination, the unfathomable distances between people and their desires, Allison Davis's Poppy Seeds creates an immaculate atlas. Here language is broken . . . against the margin of the sea, and a word is a thing that can be wash ed] away. Here the body is both a lesson and a place with an edge you can drive to. The book longs s] for as long as/Ohio rivers. Tangled between worlds and languages both old and new, our deepest emotions search for their roots, hoping to find a place to call home. Allison Davis's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, Prick of the Spindle, and Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children s Paintings. She is a graduate of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute Summer Program. Born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Davis lives in Columbus.