In American Spelling, Andrea Stone has fashioned a brilliant mosaic narrative. Each lyric is a finely faceted gem of character, observation, wordplay, or insight. Taken together, in Stone’s complex and clever pattern, they compose a story of loss, abandonment, and the slow and fitful movements of forgiveness, never losing sight of language itself as the means both of division and reunion.
—Michael Thurston, author of Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry
