“A love song to the wounded world” is how Maria Mazziotti Gillan described Maria Terrone’s first book of poetry, The Bodies We Were Loaned. Terrone’s second book, A Secret Room in Fall (Ashland Poetry Press), was awarded the McGovern Prize and published recently after being nominated by Gerry LaFemina. Its poems journey from past to present, assuming a multiplicity of voices, from an Egyptian queen to Pontius Pilate’s wife, from pedicurists to subway riders. In writing that is intriguing, unexpected and at times spiced with wry humor, Terrone leads the reader into “secret rooms” that won’t quickly be forgotten.