Sifting Red Dirt

Diane Marquart Moore's Sifting Red Dirt moves through layers of time with grace and wit as she chronicles her maternal ancestors' joys, triumphs, and failures. These poems resist an easy nostalgia but instead drill down to the core of feelings and memory as this seasoned poet, at the height of her powers, takes us to the sources of personal and cultural identity - family and place. A volume resonant with love and pride and regret, and all those things that make us human.