Big Little City

In part, paeans to Portland, Maine-to a particular life lived in a particular place-these poems explore those wonders hiding in plain sight: childhood, memory, parenthood, our always personal/always universal joys and pains. With earnest wit, bursts of humor, and deft tenderness, Bove attentively works this ground until we experience for ourselves, in poem after poem, tremors of insight into the strange yet intimate locales of the Big Little City within. -David Stankiewicz, author of My First Beatrice