"Nancy Patrice Davenport is a poet we should all read. These poems are solid talk and lyrically tuned . . . they spring from the heart of our language, no small task in this day and age. I only hope she has more poems to share as the years unfold."-Neeli Cherkovski, legendary poet and biographer

"How gentle can honesty be? A question I've long asked until reading Nancy Davenport. In her poems she offers a glimpse of what it is to touch the mysteries of a grateful heart. To read her is to feel the gentle honesty of a talented voice sharing all she is. Davenport is always well worth the read."-Bill Gainer, author A True Story

"Nobody writes poems like Nancy Patrice Davenport, a writer whose old school emotional honesty and stripped meter recalls at closest a synthesis of Cid Corman's eye with the blunt observational power of Lyn Lifshin and the spirituality of Mary Oliver. There is no agenda in these poems other than truth and beauty, and a fundamental base of understanding that poetry, at its core, is an artform of "so many words/that say/nothing/so much nothing/that says/so much." This is a mastery of word and dance as good as you will find in the grassroots."-Paul Corman-Roberts, author Bone Moon Palace