I'm not sure if people often extend the magic realism genre to include poetry, but if they don't, this collection makes me think that they should. This isn't one of those tightly-focused poetry collections that are so common nowadays, but everything hangs together because they are all poems of the impossible or uncanny. Some are feminist retellings of Bible stories, some are riffs on witchcraft in the vein of Practical Magic or Garden Spells. Others are products of LaTour's vivid imagination, with titles like "On the Days She Becomes a Bee" and "The Summer Her Boyfriend Suffered Lycanthropy." Not all the poems landed with me, but enough of them did that I'm very glad I discovered this book. (I confess that I bought it solely because of the bunny on the cover!) If you're a fan of magic realism in fiction, you might want to give these poems a try.