Is there failure without redemption? Loss without hope? The poems in Cynthia Neely's I'll Dress Myself in Wilderness and You explore these timeless questions through heartbreak (the loss of an unborn child) and optimism (a second chance), through self-recrimination and doubt, but also through love, a deep and abiding love, of the natural world and of the people in the author's world. These poems lead the reader through the struggles of both holding on and of letting go.