What Hands Can Hold

What Hands Can Hold is a luminous collection with compelling emotion andinsights. Some of the poems exude softness and beauty, and some like Elegy ofComplaint, grit and blood, We walk the shores/to bathe feet/that have trampled/fossils and bones. The poet shares her inner self without angst or contrivedembellishments. She does it with such lyrical grace and lack of pretension,you forget how intelligent and well constructed each poem is. She draws thereader into her poetic world to be absorbed by the nearly physical touch of herlanguage. These revelations are a magical gift, and once you begin to read, youthink, Ah, yes. I understand, I have felt that, and here in these words, I feel itonce again!Julie George, Heritage Writings.