Critical Commentary
“Warren is a writer who sees deep into the heart of this world, a writer whose voice bounces off canyon walls and travels along rivers to their desert ends. One can be sure that the echo of this poet's voice will always come back to the reader with clear, authentic and beautiful tones. It would seem that any moment or encounter is reason enough for Warren to take pen to paper and write heartfelt poems that linger with a reader the way all good art should. Early in this collection Warren writes "Everything has become an instrument." Perhaps there is no better description of these poems, these poems which echo through mountain ranges, New Mexican villages, the many colored skins of the earth and into flight with birds and then settle so nicely back down to earth with her people and their history. Warren is a lover of all that the earth contains or lets go and these poems reflect that love.” –Aaron A. Abeyta, author of Colcha and As Orion Falls
"Poetry with intelligence, hard-won wisdom, humor and humanity. Stewart S.
Warren's long awaited collection is an invitation to see ourselves 'in the
shiny mud,' to lean into one another, to get down on our knees and to enter
the house of experience." --Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of If You Listen & Insatiable
