Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border

<p>Maureen DuRant’s <em>Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border</em> is both clear-eyed and open-hearted in its explorations of childhood family love and those borders that both divide and define us. Humorous candid tender they demonstrate a rare insight engaging the world with plainspoken language and a canny wisdom. DuRant’s poems skirmish at the fraught edges of language winning ground page by page “in a battle to claim turf where tongues can hold their own.” —Morri Creech</p>