"Mad fury all around"-somehow the right words about life make it easier to get on with it. These poems do exactly that, catching us out in the most adroit, surprising ways: by sheer skill, self-aware intellect, a mordant wit, abundant heart, a gift for metaphor so exact it produces combustible insights of complex truth. These poems brilliantly enact our contradictory nature, its poles, and they compel us to look within. -Eleanor Wilner "I go to poetry for a naked view of humankind: our cruelties, our quirks and kindness, our capacity for change. That's here, in all the homes Saunier inhabits. Say yes. You'll be well fed." --- Broad Street Review "Hayden Saunier turns an inquisitive, appraising eye on the landscape around her... sharing with us a rich and subtle tapestry in which natural and unnatural, past and present, intermingle. " --Mad Poets Society "Saunier's clear-sighted vision of herself and her fellows is perhaps the tonic we need for a healthier world." -Pedestal Magazine "Hayden Saunier's A Cartography of Home is another breathtaking example of what this poet does best: crafting sensuous language, weaving together word play and close observation."--Philadelphia Stories "These beautiful poems create a heightened awareness of how all things are connected. From the people who came before us, whether they built our physical house or built our family, to the natural world—dirt, sky, sun, moon, trees, coyotes, seasons, horses, fruit, flowers. It is all there for the taking; we have only to look for it." --The Compulsive Reader Hayden Saunier is the author of the poetry collections How to Wear This Body, Say Luck, Tips for Domestic Travel, and a chapbook, Field Trip to the Underworld. Her work has been awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and the Gell Poetry Award, and has been published in numerous journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Smartish Pace, Tar River Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Vox Populi. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac. A professional actor, she is the founder/director of the poetry and improvisation performance group, No River Twice, which creates interactive, audience directed poetry readings. She lives on a farm in Pennsylvania.