Walking Barefoot
“In Vicki Graham’s poetry, close attention becomes gratitude, becomes beauty, becomes healing. Listen, I tell my friend, to what Vicki says about the cedar that splits its own heart. Remember, I tell myself, what she says about the thrush’s gentle question. The poems are more than beautiful. Like earthy aphorisms, they are wonderfully wise. I would follow her compass into the darkest forest, through the deepest grief.”
-Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth’s Wild Music
The Hummingbird’s Tongue
“Vicki Graham is a poet-naturalist supreme, evincing a naturalist's curiosity—and competence. You’ll get an education in plants, birds, and limnology from The Hummingbird’s Tongue.... Graham loves the names of things, and she loves to make contact with them. She tends to the here and now and she shows us the magic of looking, listening, touching. Her poetic language is as tightly packed and full of life and possibility as a seed. Or to switch metaphors a bit to invoke one of her favorite images, Graham’s words, noun-heavy and verb-slicked, are as carefully placed as the river-smoothed stones she so admires—stones that beckon to the eye, make the river’s sounds, and feel right in the hand.”
-Ian Marshall, author of Border Crossings and Walden by Haiku
The Tenderness of Bees
“There is an open doorway between organism and environment, between inhabitant and habitat, between body and nature. Vicki Graham stands at that threshold and speaks to us in a language of intimacy and tenderness. Let’s listen.”
-Sandra Steingraber, author of Post-Diagnosis and Living Downstream
“The beauty of the book as an object does honor to the clarity and beauty of the poems.”
-Jane Hirshfield, author of Ledger and The Beauty
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Heading photo by Jordan Dawn