Of Oracles and Monsters Quitab Editions The acts of the imagination

The acts of the imagination in Having Witnessed the Illusion are brilliant

Her inventive gestures (such as her series of “Invention of…” poems) and her engagement with other arts adds yet another “turn” to this wildly beautiful collection

” the “tinted windows of history” in our own mothers’ nostalgia

Her rhymes

“knowing nothing about the other side

Of Oracles and Monsters Quitab Editions The acts of the imagination"America is on fire and we lit the match. In this collection of elegiac and urgent poems, J. P. Dancing Bear reaches back into mythical times to show us how we have arrived at this moment in our political and social landscape. Like a modern day Cassandra, the poet is uttering prophecies that we must heed or history is, once again, doomed to repeat itself." Collin Kelley, Midnight in a Perfect World Available here!