The poems of The Arrows That Choose Us strike with an extraordinary mix of candor and craft. Harry Houdini, ghost writers, Three Musketeers, neighbors, and lovers appear amid meditations, songs and stories. The strange presses against the straightforward, the lively presses against the grave, "the human parts press against the holy" in this wonderful collection. Marilyn Annucci is supernaturally alert to "whatever is needed to tear us awake."