Promise
“Promise,” features smart poems that bring a cheeky edge to the theme of domestic bliss. By-and-large tender poems of praise for familial love, they accomplish this celebration by telling the truth about it, dirty laundry included.”- Kathryn Nuernberger, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“These poems glance and shimmer with light, energy and humor. Van Doren’s work is quick and intelligent, and it illuminates our lives, even those tiny corners (the inside of the closet) where no-one looks. Brava”- Roxana Robinson
“I attempt to carve out a sparse place for desire,” Sally Van Doren writes in her inventive Promise. And she does. Desire is there for us in her book as a line through time, cutting through the daily into sharp vision.”- Jennifer Kronovet

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