In Excavation, a collection of lyric, narrative, and experimental poems, Janet Jerve investigates the complexity of a woman's journey though a family history that includes a father who is both nurturing and incestuous. She explores situations of seeing/t seeing by family members and the self. After the father's death, the woman breaks through her own forgetfulness (the child's buried memory) and the excavation of the title poem begins . . . These poems are accomplished in craft and form, powerful in feeling. --Roseann Lloyd, author, of The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars: A Memoir in Poetry