Before the Drought Quitab Editions as in her poem "Eclipse

as in her poem "Eclipse

” this book reminds me that if we allow language to create us-in the call & response

But I'm straying from the point

they illuminate the social and cultural world of her time

author of Dear Almost

Before the Drought Quitab Editions as in her poem "EclipseBefore the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and bloods hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating