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" '...In that space between day and night/Romance and expectation loiter.' Loiter. Yes. On such smooth and well-charged turns, Joan Gelfand's poems vibrate, shudder or take flight, roaring and purring to safe and not so safe landings in the heart, in the gut. Readers, beware. This is powerful stuff."
Al Young, California State Poet Laureate

"Exuberance, a true emotional honesty and a light touch with humor kept me reading Ms. Gelfand's poems. The energetic spirit of the poems give swing, and swirl to the form."
Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Teacher, Poet, Founder of Everyday Zen Meditation Center

"Ms. Gelfand's exquisite, breath-taking poems tell us about our deepest selves, reaching those secret places where we all overlap and long for validation.
Jane Swigart, "The Myth of the Perfect Mother"

"That these edgy poems avoid sentimentality is a testimony not only to Ms. Gelfand's 'metronomic irregularity' - her insistence that meaning is primary - but to the sharp, jaggged, always intelligent quality of her awareness."
Jack Foley, Poet, Author, Host of KPFA's "Cover to Cover"

Ms. Gelfand's universe is wide, encompassing the parallel worlds of dreams and life lived in a fast-changing world. WIth a poet's eye and a seeker's intention, Gelfand teases out the sacred, the beauty, and the humor in her experience as a dreamer, an artist, and a mother."
Dr. Debra Condren, author, "AmBitchOus" Random House Press