" Read this in one sitting. Let the grief pull up a chair, lay idle."- Sofia
" A grueling and honest recount of Jeanette Wall's and her siblings' nomadic childhood. This memoir is told mostly from Walls adolescent perspective, which being worn down by cyclical mistreatment she becomes tangled in coping and accepting her parents' wrongdoings. A reconciliation of parental misguidance, for personal relief, even after being repeatedly failed by them." - Sofia
" The Wall is a daily log detailed with the survival skills/mundane tasks that comes with fending for yourself in the woods, such as harvesting potatoes or darning a pair of threadbare socks. A mending of human identity through continuous self reflection, pastoral musings,and the uncomfortableness of being completely alone. It is meant to be read slowly, while hanging on to moments of patience for both animals and nature. " - Sofia
" An early staple from my teenage years, reminiscent of a time for cherishing small mementos and keepsakes. Kathy H. recounts a scrapbook of memories, while at the forefront remaining eerily inquisitive of her place in the world." - Sofia
"An appreciation for the little poems, Lorine words her cyclical routines and daily motions from in and around her cabin. Her permanence on Black Hawk Island remains in the floorboards of the standing cottage, and the archive of correspondences between other poets such as Corman and Zukofsky. As she puts it in her poems remain slow moving and condense, condense, condense."- Sofia