Let's Hear It for the Horses

<p>Horses and humans go back in time with each other thousands of years. A young girl's love for horses or a particular horse is the stuff of legends bestselling novels and movies. In <em>Let's Hear It for the Horses </em>Tricia Knoll's poetry explores her lifelong fascination with these strong and sometimes symbolic creatures and shares stories and memories of her best rides. </p><p><br></p><p>If you know your totem animal is Horse you'll see these gentle giants everywhere-in the history of war on gas-station calendars haunting memories of harvest a father's fall and your own hand's memory of dusty withers. These poems will take you into a life enhanced by horses as every life should be by something friendly but not defeated.</p><p><strong>-Kim Stafford author of <em>Singer Come from Afar </em>Oregon Poet Laureate Emeritus</strong></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Knoll takes the reader close to real and imagined horses-close enough to feel the tickle of their whiskers or notice the green spit on their lips....You don't have to know horses to love these poems; they can serve as a generous introduction to the joy and sadness that canters in the air beside them.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Judith Barrington author of <em>Long Love: New & Selected Poems 1985-2017</em></strong></p><p><br></p>