Rembrandt's Smock

One of the centurys great voices. One thinks of Emily Dickinson more than any other poet. Cassandra Robison poet and editor The Artistry of Life Strongins pigmented words flow in linseed. She explores rivers of language like a stalwart oars-woman who pulls with the current. Beneath there lies a tremendous body of movement and music. Readers float - securely protected by Strongins mastery - just above it. Eve Anthony Hanninen artist & editor The Centrifugal Eye Strongins sharp always surprising sense of image her compassion for those who suffer attrition and isolation have made me a fan from the first. Its a privilege to read and then return to the place where her imagination takes in the world. Jordan Smith poet Reading Strongin I am transported into what I think of as the Classic Universe of World Poetry. Strongin exists in a mind-world which she transforms into her psychological landscape. True solitude is inward where one can cultivate ones crop of secrets. Strongins creativity takes the world inside herself turning it into her own private art-world then bringing us inside with her. Hugh Fox poet and critic