by Peggy Sapphire
"Peggy
Sapphire's compassion and concern for the invisible people in America,
the wounded, the oppressed, the hurt, the forgotten, come through with
heartfely passion in these poems."
David Budbill
"Peggy Sapphire's first poetry
collection marries the lyrical to a life of daily visions and
intuitions. With artful simplicity, she finds meaning in the
distorted, the supressed, the neglected. Sapphire's vividly new detail
are written with clarity, depth and grace."
Alice Brand
"In
Peggy Sapphire's poems the personal becomes political, a circle turning
from home beyond to the world and back "I'm part of history now/that's
my job." These poems never let us forget injustice; they insist on our
caring, on what was once called the good fight. Yet the intellect is
not without the power of the senses just as world events are not
without the importance of where we came from -- read "The Art of Making
an Omelette" to catch the ever present activist, watcher, listener,
taster, lover at her delicious best: "take big bites," You will be
nourished, fed seasoned love and culyural history at a genorous table."
Myra Shapiro
