Before the Drought Quitab Editions author of Dear Almost

author of Dear Almost

This book is itself “a dream tree / pungent of everything

yet she reflects on her love for her husband and stays in the now

” this book reminds me that if we allow language to create us-in the call & response

In One Day I Am a Field

Before the Drought Quitab Editions author of Dear AlmostBefore the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and bloods hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating