I know of no poet with as generous a mind and as sharp an eye as Camille Norvaisas. She invites us to embrace the world we have been given: “You came to the green mountains / for the largess of things, the ferocity of nature. / What you get is a small bird.” Here is a poet who recognizes what Marianne Moore did: the need to look closely in order to see widely: “With pen in hand/take direction from the pelican search / hover, dive, strike.” This is a book that puts its faith in the hard work language is ready to do, once its in the right hands. Reader, you can count on these words. You are in caring, trustworthy hands.
~ Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swerving of Atoms