Jan La Perle dream-walks through tenderness, loneliness, and a house-full of troubled love. -Matt Hart.
This is a book I\'ll keep near me.
I feel a little closer to the Vast by these poems.
Its nightmares are possibilities.
Its beauty is frightening.
It is so gentle and sobering, and...colossally lonesome, ferociously daring.
I am taken with this book.
These poems remind us to soak up what\'s given and to reach kindly/sadly for all that\'s been taken.
It Sings subtly with great attention and wonder, and dread, of being alive, of keeping a lamp lit-of moment to momentous to minor to flight-when so much has fallen into darkness. -Lisa Lewis
Maybe The Land Sings Back is a holy book.
Yet even when you talk about feeling crazy, your letters / are so calm, a friend says in one of the poems: such is the paradoxical wonder of this collection.
Birds and a fast mile, a daughter\'s curious questions, and the small daily adventures of her learning make magic, though threats to its tendrils of peace come close and stay too long.
Jan La Perle dream-walks through tenderness, loneliness, and a house-full of troubled love
