Maureen DuRant's Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border is both
clear-eyed and open-hearted in its explorations of childhood, family,
love, and those borders that both divide and define us. Humorous,
candid, tender, they demonstrate a rare insight, engaging the world with
plainspoken language and a canny wisdom. DuRant's poems skirmish at the
fraught edges of language, winning ground page by page "in a battle to
claim turf where tongues can hold their own." --Morri Creech