“Judy Brown is a superb poet, whose words are at once clear and subtle—as clear as the water we swim in together, and as subtle as the currents and creatures that move quietly deep-down. I've been reading her work for many years, and I highly recommend every book she's written. For me, this one contains some very meaningful messages, delivered in the manner Emily Dickinson counseled: "Tell the truth, but tell it slant." Emily did not mean that we should be evasive. She meant that we can't run headlong at life's big truths and expect to penetrate them—we can see them clearly only out of the corner of the eye. In that sense, "slant" is what Judy Brown achieves in this collection—making it a gift for me and, I believe, for you as well. “ -Parker J. Palmer