In this book we see tributes to diverse heritages, recognition of cultural ties, homage to particular quilts, attention to the construction and art, and descriptions of what it is like to lie under a quilt.
Quilts help people to keep warm both physically and spiritually, the poets seem to say.
Just as the quilts extend the poems by aiding visualization, the poems give words to the texture and color and themes of the quilts. The poems and quilts . . . suggest that quilters are poets, and poets are quilters. The quilt detail featured on the jacket pictured to the left is from Crazy Quilt Within Contained Borders from the Museum of American Folk Art, New York. Of pieced silk by an unknown quiltmaker, found in New Hope, Pennsylvania, it dates from 1875-1900. Scan patterns of color, the top, the bottom, the way small pieces fold into a fit.