Influential San Francisco poet, editor, and arts organizer Virginia Barrett has compiled two decades of collected work and introductory essays into a remarkable, unique journey through poems that also serves as an instructional primer for authentic creative writing—it will delight all audiences. Never before has a poet so carefully and successfully balanced personal memoir, spiritual encouragement, and observational epiphany into a single, indispensable poetry collection. Her robust good-heartedness embraces the world in sacred ecstasy, as though Walt Whitman, Robert Bly, Mirabai, and Emily Dickinson are gathered around a campfire next to a healing river in a spontaneous jam session of beautiful verse."—Bobby Coleman
2013, 216 pages