In Prime Meridian, Connie Post's daring new collection, she writes to "identify/the noises of departure"--those of land engulfed by natural disaster, of family dissolution by abuse, of retreats to safety in the face of suffering. More importantly, these poems teach us conservation: "we find graceful ways/to slides out of a room/step over a fractured equator/"--holding things dear in the face of such violation. Remedies come in language: the grammar of ritual, ceremony, and resistance. This is a poetry of incantation against the darkest and most secret types of human depredation and hymns of recovery--all spoken in assured and inventive measure. Connie Post's strength is her unflinching and virtuous language to redeem a moment or a life. --Maxine Chernoff, Author of Under the Music: Collected Prose Poems (MadHat Press)