Kirjahaku

Linda Larson's deeply felt poems evoke a specific time and place -- Mississippi in the 1960s - along with more universal truths about family and relationships, the brutality and tenderness we visit upon one another, and the tools with which we must equip ourselves in order to survive. - Joseph P. Kahn, Boston Globe

Linda Larson's best poems are imbued with a sense of history, personal and otherwise, that is deeply felt and achingly honest about what matters most: love, loss,family, friendship, identity and, ultimately, our own morality. - Joseph P. Kahn, The Boston Globe

Larson's poetry and her life's work has been casting a keen eye on the human condition. Linda finds beauty in the wizened faces of the elderly; she evocatively resurrects the past but does not live in it, she mourns the loss of trees; the squalor of the homeless, the malaise of the mental hospital, and the joyous and transient path of love. This collection is like a scar that has healed beautifully. There is a meditative acceptance of what was, is, and what will come. This is another stunning collection by Linda Larson. - Doug Holder, Ibbetson Street Press, Lecturer of Creative Writing/Endicott College