Review: A Great Poet and an Astounding Poem
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
I have always felt poets to be the kings and queens of expression--the multimedia expose' of a heart. Words and images locked together, shushing the intellect quiet and cracking the nursery door of the intuitive open just enough to let us squeeze back in. No one does that better than Jo Vonbargen, and in this history of life Ms. VonBargen boldly paints in dramatic shades of reds and blacks, she lovingly leaves room for new endings. It takes cold-steel courage coupled with a mother's devotion to caring to look as deeply as she is willing to, and it takes brilliant talent to crawl back up over the edge and capture that experience in words. We have here with us a poet that is among the best, a voice that someday, we early-on readers will be able to point to and say, "I knew her when."