Description: "Winner of the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for 2020."
Brief description: Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of the poetry collections Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat, and The Strict Economy of Fire. She teaches poetry writing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and directs a writers' retreat center in the mountains of New Mexico.
Review Quotes: [Previous praise] Artfully evokes the beauty and power of the Louisiana bayou, building a case for the survival of a landscape and culture in danger of being exterminated, not only by nature's forces, but by human carelessness and greed.--Rattle