Notes from the Column of Memory

<p>From the first poem Red-Eared Slider through to the final All the Hours the Night Has Left Drexler weaves a tapestry of love loss  grief and acceptance-an elaborate kaddish in which she celebrates and sanctifies the names of the things events and persons she remembers. <em>Notes from the Column of Memory </em>is a much needed collection that will underscore for every reader the need to document accept and sing <em>the hardships the sorrows and joys we are all born to-bound to. </em>This is one of the most moving offerings of poetry I have read in a long time. And for me the experience of reading it is captured in one of the volumes many memorable lines: it is . . . <em>a hustle of tart and sweet so sharp it hurt.</em></p><p>-Regie Gibson</p>