About the Book Pearys poems describe a world with endless off-kilter surprise and beauty. Book Synopsis My poems are often dreams; my dreams are poems, Alexandria Peary tells us in her marvelous first book. These poems describe a world resembling out own, beneath which she finds endless off-kilter surprise and beauty. Outside, she writes in one in one startling moment, the driftwood struggled like arms & legs and, later, a recorded voice looks just like a piece of tinfoil lying in the sun / in which you could go swimming. Ive long admired Alexandria Pearys intelligence, her evocative skills, and her gift for discovering in the everyday such dreamlike, frequently frightening, moments.