Honey with Tobacco
- Contents
- Review Quotes

I. Honey with Tobacco
La Tuvería or An Earring’s Lament
Machine of Regret
Agua de Violetas
Tobacco
Playa Colorada
Family Portrait
Mantilla
Transition: Inheriting Maps
Abanico Habanero
II. Deposition
1. Before Losing You at the Market, Finding You at the Temple
2. The Effects of Intemperance
3. Sacra Conversazione
4. Annunciation
5. Palm Sunday
6. Agony in the Garden
7. Deposition
8. The Bad Thief is a Mother
9. Pietà
10. Cup
11. Judgment Day
12. Lamentation
13. Genuine Repose During the Flight from Egypt
14. Catch
III.
Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty
Bitch Diary
Pentecost: Waiting
Forty Days
“Peg Boyers’s poems have a rare power: they match the private to the public, the intimate to the political. Her own memorable phrase puts it best: ‘spiky but benign.’ The range is formidable. From lyric desolation to ‘funky irreverence.’ But unifying this diversity, we hear, unmistakably, the voice of a true poet.” —George Steiner
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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