Unholy Heart includes generous selections from each of Grace Bauer's previous books of poetry, plus a sampling of new poems. Bauer has long been known for the wide range of both her subject matter and poetic styles, from the biblical persona poems of The Women at the Well , to the explorations of visual art in Beholding Eye , to the intersections of personal history and pop culture in Retreats and Recognitions and Nowhere All At Once , and to the postmodern fragmentations in MEAN/TIME . Along with these selections, Bauer incorporates her most elegiac work yet. Grace Bauer is the Aaron Douglas Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry, including , The Women At the Well Nowhere All at Once , and Beholding Eye.