Noonan’s debut collection of poems, The Fado House, introduces a poet of real achievement and great promise. Her poems may be characterized by an intense musicality and a determinedly outward look, the range of the work (poems inspired by music, by visual art, by myth, by time abroad, and by the magic of family, friendships, and love) always matched by the telling details of credible experience. Poems that speak of the loss of loved ones are handled with great sensitivity, and her most affecting personal moments are echoed in her translations of poems by Baudelaire and de Nerval, which further expand the reach of a book whose dominant tones are that of celebration, wonder, and survival.