The Coronary Garden: Poems

Ah to be the one for whom the love poems in this sexy, brainy, elegant book were written. –Linda Gregerson

The Coronary Garden is a collection braiding love and mortality. In Love Poem, Unwritten, Townsend identifies a physical abnormality of the poet’s heart as a figure for human love: fragile, vulnerable, our very imperfections opening us to connection and grace. Ann Townsend is the author of Dime Store Erotics (1998). She lives in Granville, Ohio.