Red Has No Reason

A marvelous intelligence mindful and clear-eyed governs the inscape of these poems where strangeness/is so usual nothings strange - nor does that commanding presence hesitate a moment before welcoming magicians who train as pole-vaulters do - tedious lonely practice/ broken by a moments flight. It is such flights we witness here increasingly aware once again of a sum greater than its parts of moments seemingly disparate that gradually become a mosaic catching the range of a whole life richly lived and examined with meticulous candor. William Pitt Root poetry editor of CutThroat: A Journal of the Arts and author of eleven collections of poems JoAnne Growney is a mathematician and a poet - a striking combination. Her poems belie the old saws about the two cultures. Red Has No Reason shows us how we can be precise and intuitive heady and heartful. Jan Heller Levi poet author of Skyspeak editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader Red Has No Reason is a collection that takes the reader into a world with a kaleidoscope view - one that shifts and dazzles and mystifies despite best efforts to impose order. Her pairing of this red raw stuff of life with mathematical precision creates a poetry collection to rival the mystical allure of the aurora. Jerry Wemple poet author of The Civil War in Baltimore and You Can See It from Here co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania editor of Watershed: the Journal of the Susquehanna