<p>Libby Bernardin&#39;s poems summon a landscape of vivid imagining&mdash;her birds skies stars and wind. Yet these are not merely poems of the outer natural world no matter how beautifully they render it. <em>Stones Ripe for Sowing</em> has immense inner life and displays the power of the poet as seeker showing us how to &ldquo;forage in hard and doubtful places.&rdquo; &mdash;John Lane</p>