Hard Listening is a testament of hope, celebrating the fierce feminine in song and on the streets with odes to a pair of girls hanging out on a neighbor's porch, a naked woman in the locker room of the gym, a mother lifting the weight of her own pain off her child. Here, Alison Luterman weaves poems about singers, activists, and lovers of all stripes.The core of the book recounts her journey to learn how to sing-missed notes, warbly vibrato and all. During the pandemic, sh...