Fierce This Falling

Poetry. "In FIERCE THIS FALLING, Betsy Johnson-Miller writes with the hard won honesty of the seer who has walked through the fire. Her poems chart the course of mortality through nature and the body, creating a fragile world balanced always on the verge of falling away even as it reveals its beauty. These poems ceaselessly question without offering easy answers, only the possibility of knowing we are not alone, the consolation that the biggest questions are shared by even the 'small congregations / of geese spend(ing) the morning / beseeching a world / beneath the water's surface,' or the deer 'staring at the house / her skin holding life / like a corset.' Read Betsy Johnson-Miller and taste the cold peace and fierce falling of a life truly lived, a life where we freely acknowledge that pain rides beauty's back and doubt is never far from faith."—Peter Grandbois