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My favorite, “First Shot,” is spoken by an adult looking way back into childhood–but slides seamlessly back and forth from the memory of a thinking adult right into the eyes and surprised heart of a child. This narrative device empowers the poem to break out beyond lines that make you think, laying down phrases that bypass the head. Clark’s deftly crafted lines suddenly shine with a genuine child’s point of view and just as naturally slip back to an adult mind plumbing memory with precision and opinion.
–Dick Bakken, author of Dick Bakken Greatest Hits 1967-2002, Pudding House Publications, 2005.
Leslie Clark‘s elegant poems are always honest, always thoughtful. Her words bring reenactments of real-life scenes to the reader’s brain. Been there. Done that. Such reality. Yet she always leaves us wanting more, and wanting to read her poems over and over and over.
–Doris Gwaltney, author of HOMEFRONT, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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