The Small Words in My Body and The Disorder of Love in one volume.

Award-winning poet Karen Connelly's work is a travelogue fo her journey - physical, emotional and spiritual - through this life. Written early in her career, The Small Words in My Body won the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, a precursor to Connelly's 1993 Governor General's Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. The Disorder of Love is Connelly's most personal work to date.

Grace and Poison includes an introductory essay from Connelly about her earlier poetry and her travels since those days.