"This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us:
the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire
describes and follows. Connection seems tenable as a jet trail, 'a seam,
holding together / the two halves of the sky.' Kate [Gale] Harper
belongs in the company of Lorna Goodison, Margaret Atwood, Lucille
Clifton--all poets who write, with force and directness, what a woman
lives. I think the secret of Harper's strength is this: from the middle
of all loss, all bewilderment, her poems aspire to the condition of
dancing."
--Angela Ball, Mississippi Review