This Passage

<p>This is the most powerful and personal collection of poetry I have ever read remarked Tom Spence author of <em>Observations and Commentary: One Hundred Poems</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>A book of our time asserted Veronica Golos author of <em>GIRL</em> (winner International Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry Beirut Lebanon) and <em>Vocabulary of Silence</em> (winner New Mexico Poetry Award).</p><p><br></p><p>The poems in this collection reflect the realities of happiness strength and love as well as cumulative disabilities death grief-and a passage to healing. This book blends Humanity with Poetry both of which the poet believes are essential to life.</p><p><br></p><p>Deering has won numerous poetry awards including the Wyoming Arts Council Poetry Fellowship.</p><p><br></p><p>From the poem <em>Monsoon</em>:</p><p><strong>You spoke of your slight limp</strong></p><p><strong>crippled arm problematic breathing.</strong></p><p><strong>I was drawn</strong></p><p><strong>to your sense of humor energy</strong></p><p><strong>your large-as-living smile...</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Her first book Havoc & Solace: Poems of the Inland West was published by Sastrugi Press 2018.</p>