Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment. -Derek Sheffield, author of Not for Luck , co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, and Poetry Editor of Terrain.org.
These lyric tangles help us grapple with a life where the ugliest abuses of person and planet occur alongside a mother\'s love for her son, the grace of childhood innocence, the anniversary of a first kiss, and the understanding that in this land of dogwood blossom, swordfern and fen is everything we need to believe. -Craig Santos Perez, author of from incorporated territory [åmot] , winner of the National Book Award for Poetry Through an array of poetic forms, Jill Mccabe Johnson explores a deep sense of interconnectedness.
River me home.
The lyricism of these poems carries the speaker into the clear slipstream of memory to river me home.
Throughout, Mccabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism.
Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment