girl in tree bark

In Kelly DuMars girl in tree bark the past especially the life of the family of origin acts as a kind of sap that provides nutrients for the photosynthesis that charges the poems. But the poems send their salubrious nourishment down to the past which becomes transformed with the poem-making. The effect of the past on the present and vice-versa is not static; it is a reciprocally kinetic symbiosis played out in fluent daring narratives in language keen with insight and liquid with sumptuous musicality. In almost every poem a coupling of devastation and healing works a remarkable magic. -- Tom Daley author of House You Cannot Reach