The Sound of Heart Is Here I Am (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781639808540)

Ann Iverson has been waiting for you. In this gem of a poetry book, she'll riff on owls and geese, brutality and bliss, even a city named Be Careful. A visual artist herself, she'll reference Van Gogh and Kahlo and others. This is a serious poet who reads aloud to herself each poem she writes, hoping it "purrs like the motor / of a baby's dream."

-Nolan Zavoral, author, The Heretic Hotel and A Season on the Mat

Writer and artist Ann Iverson works in words, paint, and fabric, but her true medium is surprise. In this new collection of poems, Iverson offers readers a cornucopia of surprises, line after line and page after page. Vivid images, startling ideas, and potent stories populate these poems. Through Iverson's eyes, shadows "are more perfect / than what precedes them," God does magic tricks with a cousin, and "the living will believe in anything." "I am tired of perfection," she declares, inviting us all to "just love the flaw of it all." Indeed.

-Lee Colin Thomas, author, Honey in the Dark