Dreaming in Grief by Mary Strong Jackson

With her astute portrayals of human suffering and joy, Mary Strong Jackson‘s poems encompass the breadth of human feeling, the curiosity of daily experience along with the ambiguities that transpire.

–Elizabeth Jacobson, author of Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air. Santa Fe, New Mexico Poet Laureate 2019-2021

There is much at stake in Mary Strong Jackson’s urgent poems. Mother Earth is dying and the poet has taken up her plea. In poems that throb with voices of endangered species and beloved trees, with ancient wisdom and longing, a pity of doves and a charm of finches flock under a storm of abusers. These poems are warning and reverence, ode and prayer, that yearn to unravel the meanings of home and harbor. Like the Inuit woman Jackson depicts, who checks to see who is coming, this riveting collection goes out to see how faraway tomorrow is.

—Barbara Rockman, author of “Sting and Nest,” winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and “to cleave,” winner, National Press Women Book Prize; and finalist, International Book Award