Bramble

<p class=ql-align-justify>These poems resonate with poetry's essential gift-the thrill of being. The poet's gratitude is exemplary yet at times understandably rueful: so much is given so little to hold onto. Nonetheless an appreciation founded in ardor wins the day. We the readers are all the better for meeting these wise vibrant poems.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Baron Wormser</strong> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>  Maine Poet Laureate 2000-2006 Author of<em> Songs from a Voice</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>The tender clarity of Brooke James's snapshot-like poems is so precisely rendered so crisp and exquisitely honest it reminds us that any at moment whether we are considering a child's hand print on a glass door or a collection of laundry on a clothes line by paying attention to the simplest and most un-remarkable aspects of experience we can be invited to participate in the quiet and thrilling mysteries and paradoxes that are threaded through our lives.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Michael Collier</strong> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>  Director Emeritus Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences</p><p><br></p>