Heart's Core

<p class=ql-align-justify>There isn't a false note in this book. Gardner is so completely present in each of her many settings including the ones inside herself that we the readers can't be anywhere but with her. It's beautiful too that she doesn't try to tie a bow around what she's done but instead leaves us with not yet and the hope that some day she'll go on.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Lola Haskins</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In these rich poems the poet takes us as her travel companion as she journeys through places memories and ancestral musings on a quest for significance and self. Sometimes she becomes like a librarian tracing obscure references sometimes like a naturalist hunting specimens in bodies of water and stretches of forest sometimes like a person on a spiritual scavenger hunt. These are poems of loss and retrieval of finding your way.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Sheila Ortiz-Taylor</strong></p><p><br></p>