Whitman Award winner Elaine Terranova’s new poetry collection is her sixth, and it is breathtaking. In pellucid language the poet walks through a kind of “vale of soul making” by re-visioning hours she spent as a child playing dolls with a friend. Terranova weaves her poetics of space by setting the fragile orders of the dollhouse against the realities of family friction and the terror of a whole world outside where no shelter can be found—all this in exquisite, minimalist music. Dollhouse is the 2012 winner of the Off the Grid Prize.