Of Fractured Clocks, Bones And Windshields

Sheela Free,s Voice Totally Original And Authentic, Which Is AMajor Accomplishment Today Manages Anger With Energy Humor And Pathos That Avoids The Trap Of Self Pity, AFunny PathosThe Beauty Of This New Voice Is That It Deals With Disasters By Shining Small Mercies On ThemSheela Free,s Verse Pops And Stings, Reverberates And SoothesBorrowing From Pop Culture, Politics, And Family Recipes, So That 'the Aroma Of Heaven Itself Descends And Grabs Me By The Throat,' Free,s Private Struggles With Identity And Loss Are Framed And Amplified By The Struggles Of ACommunity Fighting Natural And Manmade Disasters, Poverty And ApathyHere Is AWriter With An Authentic Voice And Vision, Whose Words Cross Oceans To Trace AHistory That Is Exotic Yet Familiar, Landing Squarely In ABarren Southern California Landscape That Is As Welcoming As It Is Disconcerting, APlace We Can All Call HomeCati Porter, Editor Of Poemeleon: AJournal Of Poetry, And Author Of Seven Floors Up And Small Fruit Songs In Her Poem, 'and So The Stupid Critic Said,' Sheela Free Exhorts Us To 'write ,till The Marrow In Your Bones sucks Its Way Into Your Words.' It Is Clear That This Is How Free Herself Writes Each Poem In This Collection Buzzes With The Stuff Of Life In All Its Pain And Joy, Each Word Extracted From The Very Center Of Her BeingThese Poems Are Deeply Personal And Political, Honest And Visionary, All At Once Poems That Stand Up And Say 'i Still Am' Even After The Most Unimaginable LossSheela Free Reminds Us Of The Courage That,s Needed If We Want To Call Ourselves Truly FreeGayle Brandeis, Author Of Self Storage, The Book Of Dead Birds, And Fruitflesh: Seeds Of Inspiration For Women Who Write PowerfulDeepIncisiveCourageousIlluminating Shonali Bose, Award Winning Film Maker, Author Of Amu  
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