IDENTITY THEORY

<p>Dorothy Wall consistently uses language as a tool to expose her own vulnerabilities and the frailties of the world. Her pen leaves nothing unturned unexamined-joy and grief receive the same scrutiny and as a result of that process the source is rediscovered and offered to the reader as a small gift.</p><p><strong>~ Stewart Florsheim author of <em>A Split Second of Light</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In <em>Identity Theory</em> Dorothy Wall 'holds aside marble folds / exposing the white undersheen / a monument to the art of / disrobing.' This collection moves from objective almost statue-like representations of emotional realities to a world of passion and uncertainty wherein a dead mother begins 'talking almost every day.' These clean well- wrought poems bring alive the personal struggles of a master poet.</p><p><strong>~ Charles Entrekin author of <em>Listening: New & Selected Work</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is the poet who will ground you inside terrain where you can walk around in wonder yet lift you to heights that give a view of the world that is transformative. This poet has mastered her craft with an attention so meticulous and so fine-tuned so sensitive and sensory that it has resulted in this body of work one that deserves to be read over and over.</p><p><strong>~ Andrena Zawinski author of <em>Something About</em> PEN-Oakland Award recipient</strong></p><p><br></p><p>           </p><p>           Dorothy Wall is author of <em>Catalogue of Surprises: Poems</em> (Blue Light Press) <em>Identity Theory: New and Selected Poems</em> (Blue Light Press) and <em>Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness Controversy and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</em> (Southern Methodist University Press) and coauthor of <em>Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction</em> (St. Martin's Press). Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies including <em>Prairie Schooner Witness Bellevue Literary Review Sonora Review Cimarron Review AMA Journal of Ethics California Magazine The Writer Dos Passos Review Nimrod Puerto del Sol San Francisco Chronicle</em> and others. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at Napa Valley College San Francisco State University and U.C. Berkeley Extension and works as a writing coach in Oakland.</p><p><br></p>