In these collaborative poems, Katie Longofono and Mary Stone take us on a journey across Kansas and Missouri in which every moment is lived to the full. Ecstasy, pain, loss, reclamation - each poem in this collection contains "silhouettes of flight and arrival" while surging ever-forward like the poets' beloved Missouri River. James Hoch, author of A PARADE OF HANDS (Silverfish Review Press, 2003) and MISCREANTS (W. W. Norton, 2007), says: "The reclamation of the body, of the stunned and wounded and earthly - The poems of HONEY AND BANDAGES bespeak a fierce return to this material. Between metaphor and meditation, there is no safe distance in these poems. The lyric verve and visceral possession reminds us of our inexorable bind to the planet and the walking fractures that are its inhabitants. Read on. Dear Readers. No slant. No angle. Just the raw and naked light of these poems."