Boneyard Heresies, Tina Schumann's fourth collection is an investigation of personhood as seen through the prisms of magical thinking, grief, the dreamland of memory and the vagaries of love. These often self-deprecating and at times darkly humorous inquiries are built around a scaffolding of self-portraits, epistles, and elegies. Ultimately, the collection explores the inevitable terminus of all living things, the ironic and faulty constructs of a rapidly moving world and one's place in the human tribe.

"Tina Schumann's Boneyard Heresies bridges the gulf between the living and the dead. One imagines the divide to be insurmountable yet these poems with their vast imagination, bravery, and power of description demonstrate 'how ... the actual / and the evoked converge.' These poems are lived-in, copious with earthly things, tangible with the 'reverberations of other lives.' They travel, yet they reside comfortably in the in-between, the limbo, the hiatus, and, in turn, through memory, dreams, evocation and storytelling, they transcend." —JOSEPH O. LEGASPI, author of Threshold (CavanKarry Press) and cofounder of Kundiman.

"The poems in Boneyard Heresies are smart, funny, and chiseled. They look behind the curtain of the self; the voice both conceals and reveals. The poems are tied to the past and the present, while the poet uses a microscope to move the psychic distance closer or further away. Schumann stays attentive to ways the inward can find passage into the immediacy of lived experience. Nothing is preordained, but the process of transformation is there in poem after poem." —SEAN SINGER, author of Today in the Taxi and winner of the Yale Younger Series in Poetry.