The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974–1977

“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild

“The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. … No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe