SOMETHING ABOUT THE POEMS:
"These are strong poems, brave works that are not afraid to identify pain-these poems come from an examined life-we have a Book of Hours here that connects and wildly chronicles the givens of a woman."
-Rosaly DeMaios Roffman: IUP Prof. Emerita; author of The Approximate Message, In the Fall of the Sparrow, and others.
"The poems here are full of elegant and perceptive surprises; they are exacting in the way they seek out and find new uses for the language we know. Each poem sets forth-measures and probes-by disappearing into, by entering into what Rilke called Die...

Poetry. TURNING A TRAIN OF THOUGHT UPSIDE DOWN is an anthology of poems by 41 San Francisco Bay Area women poets.

"Forty-one women are unarmed but dangerous. They can change your life with clarity, truth and power in equal measure. These poets, from the literary culture of San Francisco, make up an album of rich fabrics combining the ordinary and the magnificent. Intimate details and heightened temperaments give us more reason to care about poetry." Grace Cavalieri

Contributors: Manja Argue, Barbara Joan Tiger Bass, Judy Bebelaar, Laurel Benjamin, Ruby Bernstein,...