FAITH SHEARIN'S previous books of poetry are "The Owl Question" (2002) and "The Empty House" (2008). She has received the May Swenson Award and awards from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Recent work appears in "Ploughshares, Poetry East, "and "North American Review." Her poems have also been read by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac. "