Before the Drought Quitab Editions Like compelling fiction

Like compelling fiction

author of Dear Almost

as in her poem "Eclipse

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

Before the Drought Quitab Editions Like compelling fictionBefore 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