77 pp. 'A native of St. Paul, Clare Rossini is an assistant professor of English at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a member of the faculty at Vermont College's low-residency MFA program. She completed her BFA at the College of St. Benedict, before taking an MFA at the University of Iowa and a PhD at Columbia University, where she won the Bennett Cerf Award for Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize.' 'I know you want to know / What nights have meant to me, to get the facts. / Whose hand is raised toward whom? Was I really / Capable of all that implies? And what kiss is that, / That sears the last line? Don't ask. / That kiss has been paid for.'--from To the Curious Reader.