As if guided by William Matthew\'s "Love needs to be set alight again and again," Pat Mottola\'s physical and memorable poems cause us to remember people who might otherwise be forgotten.
Particularly moving are poems about her mother who never "caught up to Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan" and her father who fought.
By describing women who wear red fish net stockings and men who buy them drinks, she reclaims ordinary lives by showing how people are all looking for some form of human contact.
As if guided by William Matthew\'s "Love needs to be set alight again and again," Pat Mottola\'s physical and memorable poems cause us to remember people who might otherwise be forgotten