Sheila Packa, poet laureate of Duluth, MN, write poems about
migrations of birds, immigrants, and women moving through violence.
She brings us into and over the borders of love, fear, and the
wilderness. Connie Wanek, author of On Speaking Terms, says "The
meditations and assembled memories in Cloud Birds dissolve layer
after layer of the defenses we erect against eternal human fears
and longings. Images from the North, from the Iron Range--bears and
birches, roads that had "no end, only yearning," set the poems in
place and in motion. Often the poems do not end in a period:
instead they leave us following their trail, "a thoroughfare/ of
light falling through the pines." Pamela Mittlefehldt, PhD,
co-editor of Beloved of the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude
writes, "Cloud Birds is about bears, wings, migrations--and apples,
anger, rivers, roots, coffee, fields, longing, and always, always
love. The collection is wonderfully liminal. It is richly shaded
and shadowed, a translucent layering of meaning and memory, of
dream and thistle. It moves between narrative and music, between
aura and the most grounded reality. Many of the poems linger as
sound as much as image. Some are ephemeral. Some are achingly
immediate. The poems invite the reader to become part of the
process. Trust the free fall of Sheila Packa s voice and
imagination. This is the mystery and power of her work."
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