"American girlhood, with its anorexia and Girl Scout merit badges, piano recitals and razored self-mutilations, is the shattered 'glass town' of Lisa Russ Spaar's magical poems. Setting out to 'heal the old rifts-- / heaven and earth, girl / and dream, ' Spaar records the rituals of a tribe we recognize chiefly by its fierce determination to survive--girls, bent first on perfection, then, on returning from the banishment of our preoccupation with...