The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion Cheryl Strayed, Wild

The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman s heart and mind in language for everybody language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. Boston Evening Globe