The poems are "funny, sophisticated, exacting while sometimes surreal, and an astonishing joy to read." Sundry Abductions is a book full of "surprises that reveal truths one couldn't have guessed, matching intelligence with beauty that is not easily achieved." Readers will find narrative and lyric poems here, both "spare and theological," "dangerous and witty." Maria Dylan Himmelman's poems have appeared in Guesthouse, Plume, Image Journal, Iterant, and New Ohio Review, among other journals.

Maria Dylan Himmelman's Sundry Abductions is winner of inaugurak Hanging Loose Press Founders Prize. Her poems have appeared in Guesthouse, Plume, Image Journal, Iterant, and New Ohio Review, among other journals. She and her husband divide their time between Los Angeles and the Hudson Valley.