Sing of your sorrow, sing of your love, sing of that which you must leave behind. This premise lies behind Songs about Girls. A chapbook that marks Carter Vance’s first collected volley into the literary scene. With it we are brought across borders defined by the very personal interactions in familiar places such as Ulster, Brooklyn, Ottawa, and Toronto. These are poems that ring out with song and criss-cross borders and places and rattle with the essence of what it means to be human. Hear in these words the emergence of a fresh poetic voice for a world that rejects borders and searches for connection to the places that we haunt and the people that unfettered movement forces us to leave behind.