The poems in Liza Hudock's Reveille offer an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. "Here is a world in which the dead mother's angel arrives in the 'clean, bright mouths' of the dogs, in which 'mycelium adorns the roots like a lace glove.' Elegy or ode, personal history or menagerie―these pithy poems are as elegant and wise as they are whimsical. It's as if each line rides the razor-thin balance between inevitability and surprise. 'White wisp in the corner of my eye. / I try to look at it directly and it's gone.' I really love these poems. They make me feel more alive. Liza Hudock's  Reveille  is a standout debut."―Sally Keith "Liza Hudock's debut collection, Reveille , reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight. Caring for her mom, washing wool blankets, tending her pumpkin patch ― in such quotidian acts, Hudock finds what she calls 'clear immutable truth.'"―Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Throughout Reveille , Hudock's language is as spare as Shaker woodwork ― and just as evocative of the spirit . . . She fixes upon the past ― just as she once gazed into the eyes of her relatives ― and there she finds ways of telling that resonate more deeply than a simple act of witness by a survivor. The authority of these remarkable poems is wrapped up in their matter-of-fact tone ― neither dismissive, nor casual about grief, but made taut by Hudock's effort to find meaning, to place her losses among the vast machinery of days and habits, to demonstrate that she doesn't just belong to her sorrows, but that she also belongs to us."―Chris Waddington, On the Seawall "I love Liza Hudock's poems, for their tact and their feeling, their amusement and curiosity, their skill and attractive oddity, their clarity and complication, their fascinations and quiet audacities, all in the service of thinking about―among other things―family relationships, familial troubles, and the experience of great loss. At any given time, poets, maybe especially young poets, can start to seem a great deal like one another in their subjects and techniques, but Hudock's Reveille seems to me a book like no one else's, of this or, really, any moment. She's the real thing."―Daisy Fried "Liza Hudock is an original, rare as midnight lace obsidian. Her poems are spare, taut, denuded of ornament. The voice has almost an Irish lilt to it. In fact, one is reminded a bit of Claire Keegan's prose, the pristine quality, along with the sorcery. The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. Wonder abounds. A magnificent, memorable debut."―August Kleinzahler Liza Hudock lives in Detroit, Michigan. A veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, she received her MFA from Warren Wilson College.  Reveille  is her first collection of poems.