Welsh Woman Wandering and Other Poems

"Susan Mesinai's poems are spiritual, inquisitive, and generous--an alchemy of language. With imagistic lines and surprising off-rhymes, their many cadenced voices range from Raoul Wallenberg's isolation cell to Jacob's ladder-totem-pole; Kali's broad sweeping grounds to a mother's mother's healing well; a daughter who ..".plants her feet on mine ... laughing backwards" to a wife's full moon face, "braver than any war." I'm grateful for these new connections to this bright, agile world of constantly renewing relationships." -Christianne Balk, Author of Bindweed and Desiring Flight

"Susan Mesinai, activist, poet, moral conscience, sends dispatches from a spiritual battlefront...lyrical, personal, fiercely honest, an American Akhmatova, Mesinai bears witness to the madness of her time, and to hard-won moments of sanity and hope in this incandescent collection of poems." -Marcus Boon, York University, Author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs