Behn's first collection of poetry, Paper Bird (1988), contains many poems that delve into the spiritual. She demonstrates her skill with figurative language as she stretches her images to their full without losing control of them.

Horizon Note (2001) has been called Behn's best collection. She won the Brittingham Prize in poetry for this book. A consistent overtone in this collection is that of music, which Behn uses as a metaphor throughout.

Eyeshot (2003) is a collection of highly praised poems by Heather McHugh, a prize-winning Canadian writer who was educated at Harvard and who has taught at many U.S. colleges. Her work is often described as witty, sensual, and outright funny.

Beth Ann Fennelly's Open House: Poems (2002) won the Kenyon Review Prize in poetry and has been described as being witty and filled with unexpected insights. Fennelly states that she loves...