Helga

Praise for Richard Williams' "Helga"

Williams' range, depth, and downright virtuosity are rarely matched: "how beautiful / he is she / says & / she is / a mirror / never veiled." -John Cutaia

"Helga" is about living life as it can be, and is meant to be lived--in awareness and love, in wakefulness and dreaminess, in togetherness and autonomy. There is a sense of dwelling on the horizon, peeking over, never giving in to fear, never tumbling out of the magic and fullness of being. -David Jewell, editor of Raw Paw's "Mind Maze"

This gentle, loving book-of moments and moment-is a layered fountain, fashioned to replenish. There is beauty in art with purity of purpose; these poems and photos cleanse and vivify us, as they invite us into a joy at once private and eternal. -Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke, Townsville, Australia

If you believe poems are prayers, join Richard Williams on his knees "pulling the petals of time apart," singing "I have but one thing to do today, be in love." -James McGrath, author of At the "Edgelessness of Light," "Speaking with Magpies," and "The Sun is a Wandering Hunter"

Wedded to the immediacy of a 21st century affair of the heart, Williams' short line lengths are pointillist jabs at our consciousness; qualia jell into complete thoughts and we are left with our own array of impressions to consider. -Michael Gilmore, author of "Reckless Astronomy"

Williams says, "he loves more than what is found," and that only "I fear not being real." We are reassured, however, early on in "psalms" that "what you truly need / will never leave." -Connie L. Williams, author of "Dancing Backwards in Texas"