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"Susan Mesinai's poems are spiritual, inquisitive, and generous—an alchemy of language. With imagistic lines and surprising off-rhymes, their many cadenced voices range from Raoul Wallenberg's isolation cell to Jacob's ladder-totem-pole; Kali's broad sweeping grounds to a mother's mother's healing well; a daughter who "...plants her feet on mine...laughing backwards" to a wife's full moon face "braver than any war." I'm grateful for these new connections to this bright, agile world of constantly renewing relationships.
—Christianne Balk
Author of Bindweed and Desiring Flight

"Susan Mesinai, activist, poet, moral conscience, sends dispatches from a spiritual battlefront.... Lyrical, personal, fiercely honest, an American
Akhmatova, Mesinai bears witness to the madness of her time, and to hard-won moments of sanity and hope in this incandescent collection of poems."
—Marcus Boon, York University
Author of The Road to Excess

 

At this Spring, you will find me, in all my
    smiling Invisibility
Part of the play of lights and darks dancing
    on the
Waters of a Sacred Well, giving Vision to the
    Blind & Healing.
Here I will dwell, even in this lifetime
For I have come Home.
—from the poem "Welsh Woman Wandering"