"The best kind of wind blows through Natalli Amato's latest collection of poems—the kind that blesses and braces, wakes you up, reminds you who you are and where you came from. North Wind is a book shot through with lonely highways, midnight memories, fierce music, and, though it's hard earned, the grace of making it through, of making of the years all these true and merciful songs. “Let the nightgrass,”Amato writes, “bless this vow.”

—Joe Wilkins, author of When We Were Birds and Fall Back Down When I Die