“A memoir in poetry written with enough distance and enormous skill to avoid every common trap of such an endeavor. Getten never flinches from the harshness of the practicality and poverty of the farm life in which she came of age in rural Minnesota and never loses a hold on the humanity of all the people we meet there. What sweetness there is never turns saccharine. The tone is pitch perfect throughout. This is an important collection simultaneously filled with the specific images of a specific life and a specific place which transcends into universal themes and is a powerful example of a way to look back on one’s life, to claim everything. These poems have been grown in a fertile field and now they are '… swollen and ripe and ready to eat.'" 

- Ellie Schoenfeld, former Duluth Poet Laureate (2016-17)