Enter Alicia Beale's intense world with all your senses. In this poetry of ecstasy, everything is transformable. Her mythic, dreamlike stories are powered by dance, music, and art. The mundane details of a woman's life clash with a passion we hear as the "sound of E flat burning." The music of The Manifestation of Orange Poppies leads us through beauty from innocence to experience, that is, from "bone to blue to done."—Catherine Hammond