Praise for Grace Intoxicated

“Grace Intoxicated, a book of poems beautifully made and accompanied by the rich and meditative abstract landscapes by painter Kate Whittaker, will pull the reader across a threshold and soon he or she will share Kyle [Leia]’s vision and “Words like/ regret and if only/ fall like feathers from a bird in flight/ falling softly downward/ white against a blue sky.”

In her voice, I hear echoes of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg embracing the world and an echo of Hafiz’s ecstatic love. Behind the words is loss. She speaks to a lover or a reader, to herself, or to God with an intimate voice –she consoles and cajoles and celebrates with physical joy and vivid orange tiger lilies and lilacs blooming…” Read this review in its entirety.

- Sheila Packa