ReviewIn this genre-defying collection, as she considers life’s “important things,” Barbara Greenberg blends the grave and the comic, the real and the fantastic, plying a brilliant logic all her own. Each arresting vignette—flash fiction? prose poem? —attains a strange, aching wisdom, born of Greenberg’s fearless, original mind.Robin Becker, poet and editor  I love the quirky, cock-eyed, sage pieces that make up the book. Figures, gestures, illustrations, tales, illuminations, dreams, dialogues: these brief and intricate pieces of discourse are by turns (sometimes hairpin turns! careful!) funny, heartbreaking, elusive, sharp, and profound. Again and again Greenberg’s compressed narratives refresh our imaginations and afford us access to, well, important things.Richard Hoffman, poet and memoiristAbout the AuthorBarbara (Levenson) Greenberg is the author of The Spoils of August (1974), The Never-not Sonnets (1989), What Nell Knows (1997), Fire Drills: Stories (1982) and Late Life Happiness (2010). She has taught creative writing at several Boston area colleges and was an originating faculty member of the MFA writing programs at Goddard and Warren Wilson colleges. A former scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She was graduated from Wellesley College in 1953 and received her master's degree from Simmons College and a decade later in 1955 she married the late Harold L. Greenberg a distinguished surgeon, raised two sons and currently delights in the company of her two grandchildren.