Dog Road Woman Book

The poems in this collection weave magnificent stories out of amazingly arranged and chosen language. The voice in the poems chants unhesitatingly about horrors endured and the triumph at being unbroken despite the horrors. The wisdom in the voice seems to speak beyond personal experience as well, touching a memory that is much more expansive than what has been lived. Perhaps a connection to something larger that many people ignore or do not have access to. This expansiveness, this beyondness, its presence in the poems shines constantly, making the truth embodied in the words recognizable instantly, like only something that has always been known but may have been forgotten can be inherently recognized. The words of the poems all seem to have this marvelous rhythm as well, something much more rich than music. Sometimes soft yet insistent, sometimes a blasting explosion of images and thoughts, all of it beautiful and wonderful.