Greatest Hits: 60 Years of Lookin

At last a book of poetry that makes sense without the requisite poetic sensibility ( which is so often there to its own splendid perfected immortalized self).. In that ongoing unending tug of war between art and life this book casts it’s vote for life and gives witness to someone who has done it on their own…There is gold shining forgiveness and lush hush of innocence-here. This book takes the oars of poetry out of the dark lake of the academy expanding the acreage that truth requires and allowing for the fresh originality that surfaces in wide margins. When Ann Sexton said, “ a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us” I don’t think she was talking about Mary Slocum but she was. Dennis McBride, poet, essayist Looking for Peoria.