Maureen DuRant\'s Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border is both clear-eyed and open-hearted in its explorations of childhood, family, love, and those borders that both divide and define us.
DuRant\'s poems skirmish at the fraught edges of language, winning ground page by page "in a battle to claim turf where tongues can hold their own." --Morri Creech.
Humorous, candid, tender, they demonstrate a rare insight, engaging the world with plainspoken language and a canny wisdom.
Maureen DuRant\'s Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border is both clear-eyed and open-hearted in its explorations of childhood, family, love, and those borders that both divide and define us