“A stunning debut collection… one to read and reread.” —Maura Stanton

“The Local World announces a distinctive new voice in American poetry.” —Susan Wood

“What an eye for the precise detail this poet has, and what wild music! In The Local World, Mira Rosenthal has retrieved from a damaged landscape and history a new world of startling wholeness and beauty.” —Maggie Anderson

“[Rosenthal] writes with intellect and wit without gimmickry.”—Carol Frost

“[An] elegant first book… that joins the past to a present redefined by poetry’s lyrical power to lead us forward into the unknown.”—Maxine Scates