Barn Tarot

"Terry Persun's poems about parting--about all the losses, signified by one parting--"swim down/towards the back/of his heart/looking for light," and find it in the swimming itself--in the work the poems do. There is good humor here, at the edge of despair with love and work, and good writing. These poems are clean and sudden as pain, a pain that sometimes drives them into new rooms where they can surprise and energize us with their struggle and with their willingness to see clearly: "Each awakening/from darkness comes first/with sudden awe, then/fright, the recollection."--Felda Brown Jackson, author of "Fishing With Blood," "Do Not Peel the Birches," and "The Devil's Child,"Persun, Terry L. is the author of 'Barn Tarot', published 2004 under ISBN 9781933678061 and ISBN 1933678062.