This Is the Lightness

<p class=ql-align-justify>The poems in<strong><em> This Is the Lightness</em></strong> are<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> fired with imagination and the fragility of the human experience. Rachel Barton has created a collection of poetry that takes the reader on a journey through the natural world; explores the concept of identity and belonging; honors our sacred connections with family and friends through aging death and loss; and tackles the present-day with all its perils and possibilities.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>These are poems that offer a world of surprises and beauty with the gift of memorable language.</p><p class=ql-align-right>-Doug Stone author <em>Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain</em></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>This Is the Lightness</em> welcomes the reader into its poem-world through intriguing and often surprising narrative lush natural imagery close attention to sound and flow quirky humor-and most strikingly a tonal tendency that's simultaneously serious and light-hearted.</p><p class=ql-align-right>-Marjorie Power author of<em> Sufficient Emptiness</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>...her attention to detail is disarming. She travels far but always returns home only to find something wild within herself.</span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Karah Kemmerly co-founder of Conjunction Press</span></p><p><br></p>