"Mary Crockett Hill writes poems of rare and direct honesty, and this is a book of startling scope. After Darwin, after string theory, Hill grapples with the question of what it means—what it really means—that we are all interconnected, and does so in the midst of all the crude and delicate intimacies of daily life. With gusto, humor, and watchful attention, these poems face the complications that make us wish to be separate and elsewhere, and then they tenderly guide us back into the fray." —Mary Szybist

"Mary Crockett Hill has made a significant, fabulously welcome contribution to the world of theories in general, and elegant poetry you will want to keep close by—for the days when your own elements of existence don’t fit neatly into compartments or jingle sweet harmonies in your ear. Here’s a place where darkness lives comfortably, studded with breathtaking light. Like a mesmerizing sky." —Naomi Shihab Nye

Mary Crockett Hill is the author of A Theory of Everything, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Autumn House Prize, and If You Return Home with Food, winner of the Bluestem Poetry Award. Her work was been featured in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, and Best of the Net. In her other life as Mary Crockett, she wrote fiction for children, including How She Died, How I Lived, from Little Brown Books for Young Readers. She taught creative writing at Roanoke College and edited Roanoke Review.