Dowser's Appprentice New Release this is poetry that cuts

this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether

Temporary Skin builds into a delightful exploration of the act of making itself and a meditation on language as method for restoring the fragments of our selves and our lives

life is surely examined-and remarkably imagined-in poems alive with surprising imagery

revealing again and again what it means to be a body expendable

” this book reminds me that if we allow language to create us-in the call & response

Dowser's Appprentice New Release this is poetry that cutsDowser's Apprentice takes us directly yet deeply into daily life with news of canyon and desert, crop dust, and snow. "Hurry up and break into life" the poems say. They steady themselves in the sky ("It's a night of fat, bright planets"), look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us that's our shadow river"), and move across the land, from rural California to the "undulant, green Pyrenees," to make a cosmology that we can all share. Joyce