Hell on Heels: Poetry by Alicia Young

"How do we survive the terrible beauty of the world? You learn to have dinner with death. Hell on Heels is the powerful first book by poet Alicia Young, but it's like she's been haunting us for years. "now that i'm dead / i ride trains endlessly..." Like the blues of her native Kentucky, these poems are both banquet and funeral, jubilation and descent. You might say she'd like to go the Heaven, but there's a better bar down below."--Brendan Constantine, Author Calamity Joe (2012 Red Hen Press).