Tell Me How You Are offers unflinching insights into love and loss and the moments in between. It’s a singular view of chance meetings that become something more, secrets shared too soon, the elusive intricacies of love and the almost irresistible compulsion to practice our goodbyes. Edward Pittman’s book is a breathtaking personal view of adoration and ennui, presenting diverse worlds where Puritans and steely eyed Native Americans face off across a Thanksgiving feast, of journeys through speculative landscapes and innumerable paths not taken, of sleepwalking lovers who guilelessly pass one another in the dark, of faded gods who long ago lost touch with the world they knew, and much more – all hopelessly entangled in the strained, sometimes fraying, bonds of affection. Whether allegorical or starkly literal, Tell Me How You Are presents dizzying moments of euphoria, the emptiness of sudden heartbreak, and the ebb and flow of love that endures. Edward Pittman is a poet with a mature, studied voice, his insights keen, who is all too willing to explore where things went right, as well as wrong – and what stories, curated by the vagaries of the heart and the perspective of a lifetime, will be remembered.