is a gift of entering into abundance: images, places, people, things. Wherever we are with this poet, we see or hear something surprising and beautiful, from the tropical where a gecko speaks of grief to the West with . This is a poet looking and finding or in what she observes so carefully: a to It is a pleasure to drift through the world she sees. -Sarah Dickenson Snyder, author of If success for a poet is measured in terms of how many times readers want-no, rather need-to return to the work then, in time, Brooke Herter James, will be counted alongside America's finest poets. The memories which her poetry evokes restore our memories, offering solace time and again. -Annie Klier Newcomer, editor of Flapper Press Poetry Café and author of Here is a poet who sees where she is and knows what sustains her. Her poems and their energy carry us along, as if she were saying And I will, and I do. -Alice Duggan, author of