"I felt like I was swimming inside the imagination of all the brilliant women who came before me who have kept me alive, and all the women who are coming after us." —Lidia Yuknavich
"...a collection of new and selected poems celebrating her impressive tenure as a writer. ... it has a quiet pulse on the culture, and is an impressive, expansive read." —Lambda Literary
”I think a great many people will find it speaks
to them about the hard places and the hard choices, while they
love it for its sunlit picture of a woman young, wild, and wildly
alive.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
“Judith Barrington writes masterfully of identity, destiny
and roots.... Her images are rendered with precision and are glorious...”—San
Francisco Chronicle
“Her voice is clear and colorful, her imagery full, and her self-search
fresh.… Barrington’s passion is for the heart’s dialogue,
the search for the kindred other.”—Calyx
Drawing on her fascination
with the ocean and the currents of her imagination Barrington creates
poems that are surprising, provocative, witty and profound.
