A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney? writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses the poet? personal vision and emphasizes the importance of living out one's potential. This emotional journey may include the necessity of leaving something, of passing through wild and dark places in the shadow self. It may also mean becoming a different person, or persons. Sometimes inner and outer landscape merge. Always there is the hope of arriving at a place of triumphant joy where real meaning is found and love of sovereign self resides. Frequently McKinney's subject is the natural world and her deep reverence for it.

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I? an internationally published author and journalist with a 25+-year career as writer/editor in books, magazines and newspapers. In 2004, I started teaching full-time and currently lead a variety of writing and literature classes at Georgia Perimeter College. In addition, I? nonfiction editor of an internationally recognized literary journal that recently won the Governor? Award in Georgia, The Chattahoochee Review. This is my first book of poetry, a finalist in the Texas Review Annual Poetry Prize under a different title. In Toronto, I was poetry editor at Toronto Life in the late 1980s. I led poetry workshops at Ryerson and studied with Don Coles as well as with Roo Borson and Kim Maltman.

“.. [the poems remind me so much of Margaret Avison? poetry ... they have a lively, vivid spirit, a clean energy about them.??Len Gasparini