“Layering story within story, Verlyn Flieger—one of our leading authorities on myth and folktale—creates a novel that is half charm, half riddle. Just as her four characters are caught up in their tale, so too will enthralled readers find themselves caught up in Flieger's.”  —Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Classics for Pleasure

“Peopled with fascinating characters and a living, storied landscape, The Inn At Corbie's Caww is a marvelous book crafted by a true word-smith. Truly, a story to be savored!”  —Ari Berk, Professor of Folklore at Central Michigan University, author of Death Watch (The Undertaken Trilogy)

“Verlyn Flieger’s The Inn at Corbies’ Caww takes the reader into a world where barriers are uncertain–barriers between dreaming and waking, between memory and the moment.   Flieger has a love of language and a fine sense of image.”   —Marjorie Burns, Professor of English at Portland  State University; author of Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth

“Readers may be reminded of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood series, as both authors share a sense of time that is not linear but recurrent, concurrent, magical. A moving, challenging, and rewarding read.”  — Rose Solari, author of Orpheus in the Park (poems) and A Secret Woman (fiction)

"Jeannine Hall Gailey weaves myth and folklore into poems illuminating the realities of modern life. Gailey is, quite simply, one of my favorite American poets; and She Returns to the Floating World is her best collection yet." —Terri Windling, writer, artist, and editor of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series and The Armless Maiden

“Kin to the extraordinary pillow book of tenth-century Japanese court poet Sei Shōnagon, Jeannine Hall Galley has created her own collection of extraordinary myths, fables, and folktales for the twenty-first century.”  —Sandra Alcosser, author of Except by Nature

“The poems in Gailey’s highly anticipated second collection mesmerize the reader with its glimmering revisitations of myth that explore love and desire via the most unexpected conduits: foxes, robots, and the kingdom of animé.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Lucky Fish

"These poems fuse figures and narratives from Japanese myths and folklore, Shinto spirits, philosophy and popular culture to explore the nexus between the spiritual and the sensual…Amid musings on the darker corners of Japan's postwar legacy are flashes of the humor born of perseverance. Even Godzilla has a cameo." —Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica