“In this sensuous debut poetry collection, Grenadine and Other Love Affairs, Carolyn Grace explores meaning through body, image, form, music, myth, and history—and always through language that ‘must stretch to convey / only the edge’ of the subject (‘Grenadine’). In Grace’s deft hands, stretch it does—stretch and infuse, suffuse, penetrate, undercut, probe, and play with meaning…To read these poems is to touch and taste and hold love deeply in body and soul, to celebrate love, unflinching and painful and joyful....Come, enter this magical, essential world. Let its music sound your depths, its precision sharpen your mind. Then prepare to leave changed, your self challenged and enlarged.”

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— Libby Falk Jones, Professor of English, Emerita, Berea College