All the Verbs for Knowing

In this four part collection, the reader is led through a pro- gression of poems, romantic, loving, and sometimes erotic, to those more serious and reflective. Often lyrical, the po- ems work as songs which acknowledge pain, yet still celebrate the joyous mysteries of life. The sections follow the verb forms used by an indigenous California people whose language has long vanished. Each poem builds on the last to create a cohesive and dynamic collection that, like the seasons the author so often alludes to, eventually comes full-circle, with the promise of something still ahead.