Small Animals and Other Poems by Yvonne Morris

PRAISE:

In Yvonne Morris’s Small Animals and Other Poems one encounters a range of exquisitely beautiful and thoroughly thought-provoking poems that probe the boundary between humanity and nature where “[h]ope/takes off beneath an open banquet of sky” and “[s]mall animals/burrow into the late winter afternoon.”  The collection also hosts a number of her prose pieces that examine the human psyche in considerable depth, exploring one’s sense of belonging, self-identity, and relationships.  As in her other works one senses a strong movement toward some connection where we listen “for that steady beat of the regular world.”  In this work Morris invites us to join her on this spiritual journey.

–Ted Higgs, author of The Farther Side of Midnight and Love Embargo