Stairway to HeavenBy: Alison Hawthorne Deming Series: Penguin Poets A new collection from a poet who writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatednessfamily, place, politics, and wildlife (W. S. Piero) In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that most