Read More »"[Wall's] wise poems look clear-eyed deep into the chasm -- at illness, family history, despoliation, and mortality. At the same time, she finds beauty in the most unexpected places....You will find beauty, too, in Dorothy Wall's exquisitely crafted poetry."
~ Susan Cohen, author of Throat Singing, A Different Wakeful Animal, and Democracy of Fire."This poetry possesses the skill of an engraver, and the broad brush strokes of a fine artist."
~ Joseph Zaccardi, Marin County, California poet laureate (2013-15)"The poems are elegantly crafted and radiate a light of their own."
~ Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and Becoming an Ancestor: Poems
In this collection, culled from 30 years, are desire, illness, loss, grandchildren, whimsy, grief, and always "the necessity of seeing." Clear-eyed, precise, evocative, these poems confront the radiant promise of the world and the limits of each small life, where "to continue is what matters, the daily, graceful stumbling."
Read More »"Dorothy Wall's pen leaves nothing unturned, unexamined–joy and grief receive the same scrutiny."
~ Stewart Florsheim, A Split Second of Light"This body of work...deserves to be read over and over."
~ Andrena Zawinski, Something About, Oakland PEN Award recipient"A master poet."
~ Charles Entrekin, Listening: New & Selected Work
