How Shadows are Bundled

Anne Valley-Fox lives, works, and writes in Santa Fe. She is the author of Sending the Body Out, Fish Drum 15, and Point of No Return, all books of poetry, and the coauthor of Your Mythic Journey and Outlaws and Desperados, both nonfiction.

There are few generalities here; the poems are alive with detail. They range from poems about politics, cancer, family travails, and spiritual struggles to hurricanes, asteroids, aging, and the work of other writers and filmmakers. The poems reveal the person who created them to be someone with a hard eye and a deep kindness, someone who refuses to turn away from trouble and pain, an unflinching witness who sees the truth but never runs from delight when she finds it. - V. B. Price, lecturer emeritus, University of New Mexico's University honors program, and editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry series