Break the Habit by Tara Betts

Tara Betts' Break the Habit is haunted by jazz, the sound and echo of it, the engagement with grief and loss, the movement of language that captures loneliness and love and relationships severed by death or divorce. These are poems that make the reader weep in the same way a great jazz singer does by touching the very core of what it means to be human -- Maria Gillan, author of Ancestors' Song