"An elegant, loving, and lovely journey. Again and again, apocrifa lifts us up, drops us, then lifts us again. Finally setting us down exactly where we need to be."
--Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2018-2019, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate 2018

"Enter this exquisitely delicate collection of poems and experience the tender tensions that shudder and shake the chords of love. Part love song, part dictionary of love, Amber Flame's apocrifa offers us a language for love's many faces and phases and allows us to bear witness to the lovers' attempt to 'sink and surface' through love together; balancing the pull and tug of the desire to nest with one's beloved and the itch of having 'all the world still to taste.' In these poems we are invited to feast on both the sweet glut of love and language and the agonies which can make 'a whole desert in [our] teeth.'"
--Brionne Janae, author of Blessed are the Peacemakers

"Shedding genre labels, this book is about love -- a big topic, and Flame leans fully into the nuance... [drawing] on a deep well of available (yet still never quite enough) words around love, from languages all over the world. It's an experimental yet accessible book that captures the complexity of human connection and emotion." --Sarah Nielson, The Seattle Times