Poetry. "Whether confronting heavy matters close to home and family, taking in gritty facets of the urban landscape, or bringing to sympathetic light anonymous, mainly female workers in the shadows and giving each her moment of perfectly articulated presence, Maria Terrone's poems are quietly insistent, recuperative acts of imagination. At times spiced by a wry humor, at times opening to small touches of rapture ("I rise daily, a miracle"), this Secret Room in Fall suggests a world that is one "dense, resplendent cargo, " of which the poet takes exacting, loving stock"-- Eamon Grennan.