Good Work for Small Hands by Michelle Delaine Williams

“Sublime and tender, Michelle Delaine Williams’ debut book glistens like a kaleidoscope of community, home, and time. The fluency with which she shifts from heartbreak to wonder is, at first, disarming, and then, ultimately, deeply illuminating. What a splendid collection of warm, incisive, and finely etched poems Good Work for Small Hands is.”

–David Biespiel, author of A Place of Exodus

“In her aptly titled first book, Michelle Delaine Williams’ childhood comes alive. ‘I’m an action in waiting,’ she tells us in a poem about her birth. This statement holds true well into her teens. To her best childhood friend she admits that during her adolescent years ‘I was a wave / crashing against you and pulling away.’ Often alone, Williams learned the art of paying attention, a requirement (though she could not have known this at the time) for becoming a good writer. Good Work for Small Hands is an impressive collection of insightful, well-crafted poems.”

–Andrea Hollander, author of Blue Mistaken for Sky