PERFECT, BROKEN OR IN JAGGED FRAGMENTS by Elizabeth P. Buttimer

In this collection, you’ll find prayer-like reverence, romance, grief, murder, and dire warnings. You’ll find people and places that are indeed Perfect, Broken or In Jagged Fragments. Buttimer peppers the poems with details—both concrete and whimsical—that reflect her southern roots, as in “Despite His Good Ole Boy Ways You Just Can’t Trust Him,” where the mysterious box he offers could contain anything from rattlesnakes / to pixie-dust.

–Karen Paul Holmes, author of Untying the Knot and No Such Thing as Distance