Amalgam, the word, is defined in the dictionary as the union or mixture of things of opposite or different nature. And that is exactly Amalgam, the book: an inventory that Robin Myers makes and then remembers not only the things themselves, but the feeling of wonder when finding them all together. With a rare sensitivity, the poet observes the world and collects what she finds to later give her a place through language. "If I have anything to write with," says Myers, "I know I'm going to stop and pay attention, to seek to understand how things around me speak to each other."