Pure Few Hearts

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Russ Rankin's volume of poetry</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Pure Few Hea</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>r</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ts</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> slices into the fabric of emotion and psyche. Poem by poem Rankin's reflections confessions and admissions propel the reader through forms of consciousness oscillating between vulnerability and resilience sensitivity and intensity introspection and spontaneity and gathering energy as they navigate landscapes both external and internal. </span></p><p><br></p><p>-Theodore Shank author of <em>Follow the Flickering Down</em></p>