Introduction
One of the pleasures of an anthologist's efforts is to discover among a group of seemingly-unrelated poems an unifying thread that brings the separate poems into something larger than themselves , which mutually influence the whole.
Just as the river shapes its banks and the banks shape the river, these poems and the story they tell are an inseparable unity. Francina Hartstra's poems are notable because of their depth, their chameleonic simplicity that belies their kinship to the lyrics of Sara Teasdale , to the poignant poems of Li Po, and to Tennyson's poems of departure and transfiguration.
I hope as you read this collection you will enjoy its tale, both tragic and tranquil, and its sense of balance in life.
--- Jerry H. Jenkins
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