“The irrepressible Terri Ford is back with deliciously ticklish lyrics about the single woman’s life in the middle of America. Ford is your bighearted, look-at-me, lovelorn-but-laughingabout- it best girlfriend, if your best girlfriend could write poems unlike anyone else’s. Even when Ford mourns, she plays. And when she plays, she’s got plenty that’s serious to say, all through the playing.”

—Daisy Fried

Praise for Why the Ships Are She

“Why the Ships Are She is an intellectual and emotional thrill ride and I enjoyed every minute of it.”

—Andrew Hudgins

“Here is a poetry of exuberant surprise, disaster and dark wit, of precision fueled by desire. She has an ear so fi nely attuned to speech rhythms that the words want to leave the page and meet the reader in midair.”

—Cynthia Huntington