Advance Praise for Ordinary Swoon
Her unflinching poetic voice (clear, honest, empathetic, and unafraid to confront her own failings fears, uncertainties) faces into grief and the unfathomable love for the sacred and mysterious beauty of our earth.It is precisely this sort of voice we have always needed in the raw struggle toward wholeness.
With gorgeous imagery, humor and wit, she navigates us to the dark moment of unknowing, the dissolution before a new thing forms. These poems lead us out into the wild singing world, and back to our most tender human places.
The title Ordinary Swoon is siren song enough to lure me into its pages. This is a collection to be returned to again and again. What a beautiful triumph.
Roger Dunsmore,
POET (We're Just Dirt, Earth's Mind, On the Chinese Wall)
Cedar Brant,
POET (Like Any Other Dream Will Do)
Chris La Tray,
2024 MONTANA POET LAUREATE, (Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel)