Remote Control

<h3><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Unabashed Earnestness in the Greenest of Hope</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The poems in this collection are a practice in ordinary love both longing for and celebrating connection. Here we may partake in reading as if a friend speaks to us directly. This friend that-despite mistakes and overreaching-invests herself with unabashed earnestness in the greenest of hope imagination freedom beginner's mind surrender and renewal.</p><p><br></p><p>With sass and swagger with spunky outspokenness with humble wonder Laura Sciortino offers us her debut book of poems. In this collection where <em>paying attention is a kind of love</em> Sciortino's work finds its <em>own easy place / a moggy right place / clear as water / old as sunlight.</em></p><p><strong>-Paulann Petersen Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>...</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>small invitations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> such as Swell whose lyrical sentences entangle gestures domestic and marine and the dense canopy of Green whose lush prose block sways with need and rebirth.</span></p><p><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ed Skoog author of <em>Travelers Leaving for the City</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>With wit and insight she explores the vivid and mundane moments that make up a life... And what a gift this book is to all who read it.</p><p><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Rebecca Jamieson author of <em>The Body of All Things</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p>These poems are a delightful introduction to Sciortino's perceptive modern vision through the lens of a wondering and generous talent.</p><p><strong>-Merridawn Duckler author of <em>Idiom Interstate Misspent Youth</em> and <em>It's a Wonder</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>