In this collection Rancourt's poems are a highly energized synthesis that pulls images from the many chambers of her life-a woman marine, a journalist, ambulance crew member. She is able to weave soul with the technical language of this or that employment with grace. "All/but the occasional high intensity lumen clusters, say, /of facility-housing-child-prisoners & various/violence of aborted humanity, are all beacons that Fanta/as sticky spill down your street, into your house, /your church, your lungs, because a round of pepper spray, /a couple of cans of tear gas/& rubber bullets can be like that..." The driving heart of these poems will invite you to take a walk with her. Her ability to mix disparate elements and make them cohere in imagination is remarkable."

-Doug Anderson, VN Veteran, Pushcart Prize winner, author of: Undress, She Said; Horse Medicine; Bamboo Bridge; The Moon Reflected Fire; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police; Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Anderson_(poet)

"Rancourt's words are earthy and intimate-like morning conversation between old friends, clear-eyed with the sorrows of shared experience, still hopeful for the future. Wherever she goes in her poems, she offers gifts of nature and spirit and grit. 'Archilochus' is an ambush, but the hummingbird lives."

-Randy Brown poetry editor, As You Were journal and author of FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire

"In Songs of Archilochus, a lyrical storm that marries sky and Earth and memory and presence, Rancourt's voice vibrates across the landscape of body, 'to cleanse the palette, to rinse earthly vulgarities/ spoken in abjection while present in the wandering.' These poems are political and spiritual protests, inverted depictions of absence and passion and ephemera. Through powerful meditation and unexpected metaphor, Rancourt writes vertically, forces us to ask ourselves, 'What is it - finally - that needs to be said?'"

-Tara Stillions Whitehead, author of They More Than Burned and The Year of the Monster