Publishers’ Chapbooks
Cranioglyph
Stepping Stones Press (2008) Univ. of SC
“An urbane, intelligent voice engages the difficult story of an artist trying to make sense of her life, without pretension or sentimentality, but instead with a distinct belief in the power of poetry to delight and challege, to startle and unsettle, even as it comforts. The poems reveal a formal skill that allows the poet to find the most suitable form for the particular moment in this memoir of scattered emotional evolutions. At the end of the day, we are struck by the brilliant little epiphanies that emerge in poem after poem—often unexpected, and the better for it.”
—Kwame Dawes,
City of Bones: A Testament
Shadowplay
The Inevitable Press (1998) Laguna Poets Series No. 133
“Soot, hope, and the beauty of thorns quickened by sunlight. When you prick your finger there's a drop of blood that tells you you're still alive. What would that shadow be without the glint in your eye? Things are not what they seemed in the dark night of your understanding. What would life be without poetry and a subtle little twist at the end? This is a book of fine poetry.”
—Pat Cohee, Publisher
Lapsed Existentialist
The Inevitable Press (1997) Laguna Poets Series No. 90
“In spite of this book’s title, the author retains many qualities of existential literature: fearless honesty, a fascination with sensual experience, an underlying belief that humanity is betrayed by injustice and privilege. She has penned a wonderful poem on the spiritual value of tagging and graffiti versus the bankrupt aesthetics of bare conrete walls, freeway signs, and property rights[....] We’d like to believe that the word in poetry has an effect on the reader, that the truth operates a miraculous change within the reader’s world. Alas.”
—Pat Cohee, Publisher