Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize Book Award. "The poems in Susan Azar Porterfield's DIRT, ROOT, SILK dig deeply and with precision into the hidden layers of human relationships. Whether the geography is her own mind and body, her backyard, the endless cornfields of the Midwest, or the world at large, the poems are a discovery of both the strengths and fragility of the human condition." --James Ballowe