In the Middle of Things, Begin

"IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS, BEGIN is written from a place where faith is the evidence of things not seen. The poet's mission here is to build the visionary bridge between the unheard and the unsaid, from where the paper it is written on has ears to where the birds are singing by magic."--Andrew Kaufman

"As Eileen Brilliant transcribes the arc of her life through memories of family and her evolving self, her courageous suite of poems penetrates into the nature of love, in all its guises. 'Because paper is an ear, ' as she writes, it is through words on the page that we join her as she dives into 'those / absent places where a heart should be home.' Ultimately, triumphantly, she arrives at that place where memory has space to fade into the 'calm of new connection'--home, at last, in 'the living poem' that truly and surely embraces love--which permits us, generously, in her company, to 'continue on.'"--Bo Niles