At Home with the Dreamlike Earth

<p class=ql-align-justify>In <strong><em>At Home with a Dreamlike Earth</em></strong> Steven Croft explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.</p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>These poems paint pictures in which <em>crooked oaken branches drape skeins of moss</em> and pay homage to the quiet moments of life...</p><p class=ql-align-right><strong>-Connie Jordan Green author of <em>Darwin's Breath</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This chapbook lifted me poem by poem as gradually and gracefully as a Georgia high tide.</p><p class=ql-align-right><strong>-Gordon Johnston author of <em>Scaring the Bears </em>and<em> Where Here Is Hard to Say</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Mythic in scope layered with meaning Steven Croft's poetry strips bare a deep longing for the places that live in memory in history in the dark soil. In this powerful collection Croft holds his compass still; it points us toward a wildness none of us can forget.</p><p class=ql-align-right><strong>-Janisse Ray author of <em>Red Lanterns</em></strong></p>