In Every Little Scrap and Wonder, the acclaimed poet and essayist brings her small-town childhood to life in all it's strange glory, stitching together the wonderous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight. With warm wit and luminous prose, her stories of rural life though the seasons craft an affectionate portrait of a community bound by ritual, a family on the fault line between heaven and hell, and a child yearning for transcendence.