Staring Down the Tracks

Staring Down the Tracks is a collection of poems that gives voice to those affected by addiction a population that despite their numbers and diverse demographics is often harshly judged and silenced by shame. The mother and son of these poems are your neighbors friends relatives and co-workers who need to have a dialog with you.Images precise and severe are accompanied by a fragile defiantly beautiful music as the poet describes the son whom she will lose over and over again. Erica Funkhouser author of Post & Rail winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry...a courageous and generous collection an essential contribution to literature about addiction that will change you. Daniel Donaghy author Somerset: Start with the Trouble winner of the Paterson Prize for Literary ExcellenceIf Sylvia Plath were the mother of an addict she would write poems like [these]. Miriam Greenspan psychotherapist and author Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief Fear and Despair