Wendy Gist is the author of Moods of the Dream Fog. She's had her poetry and prose featured in Amsterdam Quarterly, Burningword, Glint Literary Journal, Gravel, Grey Sparrow Journal, Juked, Poetry Pacific, The Lake (UK), Oyez Review, Soundings Review, Toad Suck Review, Yellow Medicine Review and many other fine journals. A native Arizonan, she now lives in New Mexico, where she serves as Co-founding Editor of Red Savina Review. Her articles, essays and columns have been seen in leading regional, national and international magazines.
"Every tiny little beauty tells you her secret," Bobbi Buchanan writes in these tender poems that address "the broken, the beaten, the hard of heart." Our scars, grief, and hurtful memories are eased here against an unspoiled backdrop of plants and trees and wildlife. Even "the crooked elms and the bony oaks / the ragged crowns of cottonwoods" offer consolation. The footpath to healing is marked by the poet's attentiveness to nature; her words carve a trail to recovery. "Every morning / the earth cracks / open a dream for you," Buchanan declares, and we are made more resilient after reading every little beauty in this compassionate and candid collection by such a gifted writer. Marianne Worthington, poetry editor, Still: The Journal Tiny Little Beauty is an extraordinary collection of spare, beautifully crafted poems that read like a cross between Rumi and William Carlos Williams, though the bare-boned, exquisite vision is Bobbi Buchanan's own. In structure, inked like tree trunks in a Japanese etching, the images blaze forth with love and hallelujah. Lovely, lovely meditations on love and loss, of breaking and healing, of the grace that gives the strength to move on. Wanda Fries, author of Ash Grove
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