Things We Might Miss by Susan Stevens

Susan Stevens writes against the grain of our age. Amid a cacophony of tweets and snarky wit, the natural breathing of her poetry is a literary gesture as threatened as the rainforest. Here is a quiet voice, solitary yet self-sufficient, steady and precise. Her lines are rooted in the spiritual grace of place and life’s enduring refrain: the inevitable evaporation of relationships. The tension of love suddenly goes slack, and then, Zen-like, its wistful traces somersault into wonderment.

—Gary David, author of A Log of Deadwood and Tierra Zia