Ridge Light Press

Dominique Renda and Blake Horsley’s Midnight Daydreams invites the reader on a journey through breathtaking and heartfelt landscapes of lives both recognizable and unforeseen. The authors’ candid poetic portraits offer compelling characters, and represent a deep slice of life, crystallizing moments, realizations, and dreams lost and found. Witty, heartbreaking, and inspiring, these poems affirm our humanity and rouse our spirit. Tales of a mother’s feelings for her children, undying and impossible to suppress, a son’s independent voice, a spry woman’s inquisitive perspective on time, an exhausted man’s effort to reclaim it, veterans of war and adjustments, explorations of values and redemption, and the insight and passion of a creative life. Dominique Renda and Blake Horsley engage the reader in a conscious exploration of characters and poetic stories that bring us home.

“Transportive poetry. A moving collection. Truth and wonder artistically expressed in each character’s authentic voice.”

—Neal Menschel, Poet, Photojournalist

“A certain shared perspective. Is this commonality based in blood, in experience, in poetic sensibility? I find pondering these links and shadows enrich the overall effect of the work: each poem revealing both something about the subject as an individual and often as a part of a family, unique, yet related.”

—Stephanie Newsom, Poet, Composer, Therapist