In "Bringing the Light," Helen Kanevsky brings not just light, but wry humor, compassion, and a poetic voice all her own. This is a fascinating collection, a funhouse hall of mirrors where suburbanites rub elbows with Adam and Eve, with Neanderthals and angels, in a poetic landscape this is vast, absurd, and painfully oh-so-human. love the poems here for their honesty and ambition, for their incessant questing to make sense of an incomprehensible world. Kanevsky's high wire act over a landscape equal parts hopeful and cynical--a landscape that grows more mysterious poem by poem--is not for the faint of heart. Kanesvky is dead serious. And also, seriously funny. More than anything, I want to know what the poet is NOT telling me, which is what the best art does to us. Idiosyncratic, wise, and full of surprises, these are poems that stay with the reader long after the page is turned. Enter at your own risk. Inman Majors, Professor Emeritus of English, James Madison University, Author of Wonderdog
It is a delight to read more by Helen Kanevsky, whose wry frustration with life brings forth these profuse complaints, with the most erudite examinations. All these words of sorrow and anger should bring us down – but they do not, because she sees, and needs to see, the basic good, the light, the love that gives hope. We understand, and know we, too, will plow on. We, too, tried. Cleo Griffith, Song of the San Joaquin
