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This book of poems is about acknowledgment. Acknowledgement is the acceptance of truth or existence of something. Acknowledgement is about indebtedness to others. This book recognizes that both types of acknowledgment are interwoven. The poet expresses her gratitude to her ancestry, to her family, to the love of her wife, the love of her four-legged companions and to her connection to place and nature. She also reflects on the concept of loss whether it be through aging, the destruction of the environment, untimely death or the distortion of truth. At the same time a sense of hope is woven throughout the book and often rests within the evocative images of the natural world.

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"This is a beautiful book, written by a contemplative and generous poet with a musician's ear and a photographer's eye. The metaphors sprinkled throughout-""Tiny tongues of sand,"" ""moist chiffon of fog,"" ""lips of clothespins,"" ""skirt of the ocean.""-all add up to a rich and sensual reading experience. The sound and rhythm of lines such as ""Make me your summer lullaby"" and ""our waterbed a boat in its own warm harbor"" beg to be read aloud and simply made me swoon. In the last section of the book, the poems widen into a provocative and intelligent exploration of social justice; the poem, ""My First History Lesson"" alone is worth the price of admission. This book is both soothing and exciting and these poems will stay with me for a very long time. All in all, a very profound reading experience. -Lesl�a Newman, author of the dual memoir-in-verse, I Carry My Mother and I Wish My Father Here is a book about loss and connection-written with the power and imagination of an accomplished poet who invests the feminine spirit with love, power, grace and redemption. She traces love from the blue found in her grandmother's hands through the wisps of blue that brush across the sky and lands in the cornflower color of her wife's eyes. Here is a woman who has found a cathedral in nature that blesses her with endless images: beauty, joy, pain, and love with a depth that illumines all parts of the poet's life and yet at the climax, skillfully brings us into the crushing tragedy of the murder of three civil rights workers. Here is a poet who follows a path of vowels and consonants down to the ocean, who won't let hope slip away with the king tides: It is the women who look up at the sky and see their children nestled in the moon. It is the women who hem the skirt of the ocean. -Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, author of Special Delivery and Empty the Ocean with a Thimble"

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windflower lives on the beautiful CaliforniaMendocino Coast with her wife, border collieand mini aussie, on unceded ancestral land ofthe Pomo people. She co-founded the FeministArts Program at the University of MassachusettsWomen's Center where she published and edited, Chomo Uri, a women's multi-arts magazine andproduced the first National Women's PoetryFestival in 1976. Her poetry has been publishedin numerous journals and anthologies, includinginternational publications. windflower is also aphotographer celebrating the poetry in nature.

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