“The precise and vivid poems in PRIMA VERA ‘sing across dark spaces’ and map the world anew. She carries me to the cave of forgotten dreams, the lost coast, a schoolyard, the center of all hope. Through her vision, I come to understand some ‘heavy-booted first truth’ that returns me to myself. A fine debut!” —Camille T. Dungy

"Jill Tomasetti’s spare and beautiful poems are a careful investigation of moments of encounter, of the complex and ever-shifting relations of I, you, we, and the inhabited world beyond the human.” —Laura Walker