POEMS BY CAROL L. DEERING

HAVOC & SOLACE: 

Imagine watching a moose drink from a lake at nightfall and gazing deep into a coyote's eyes. Dancing rain makes everyone young.

Havoc & Solace: Poems from the Inland West is a shining example of accessible and engaging poetry that restores a vital connection with our natural world. Through the eyes of an award-winning poet, these poems take us beyond physical, mental, and historical constraints, to the wild beating heart of life in the American inland West.

Is it possible to experience an American region through writing? If the possibility exists, it is through this book.

Braided through the writing:

Why are we strangers, awkward with each other?
Who are we, left standing?
Show us how to bear the numbness, blazing, and chill.
Help us face forward, listen, and breathe each other's air.

THIS PASSAGE POEMS:

"This is the most powerful and personal collection of poetry I have ever read," remarked Tom Spence, author of Observations and Commentary: One Hundred Poems.

"A book of our time," asserted Veronica Golos, author of GIRL (winner, International Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry, Beirut, Lebanon), and Vocabulary of Silence (winner, New Mexico Poetry Award).

The poems in this collection reflect the realities of happiness, strength, and love, as well as cumulative disabilities, death, grief-and a passage to healing. This book blends Humanity with Poetry, both of which the poet believes are essential to life.