More on: senses

Jamie Quatro brings to her fiction a poet’s awareness of language, a historian’s sense of tradition and folklore, and a theologian’s concern with eternal questions. She is the author of I Want to Show You More (a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and National…

In my absence, one sprig of English ivy
has crept through a crack
under my window.

One of the real tests of writers is how well they write about smells. If they can’t describe the scent of sanctity in a church, can you trust them to describe the suburbs of the heart? _____________________________________ ___________ —Diane Ackerman For your love is more delightful than wine. Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;…