Wake Wake Wake

This collection of poetry by award-winning poet Valerie Nieman ispraised by National Book Award finalist Sarah Lindsay, who says"Valerie Nieman writes poems with long tap roots, and poems with sharpbeaks that strike swiftly. They cast off from the known, or fix thefamiliar with a clear gaze, and unmoor the reader either way. For anameless hunger and restlessness, here are guide and supplies andhills to climb, all in one fine book." Fred Chappell, former PoetLaureate of North Carolina, offers the following: "Like the millwrightin her poem, Valerie Nieman seems "with bare hands (to) embrace livesteam." Wake Wake Wake is sinew and tendon, hard muscle and bruisedbone; the volume sings with every inch of the body and every breath ofthe spirit. If she speaks of "hearing that we have all fallen short,"she yet believes¿she knows¿"the way a path is best walked/not bylooking down/but by looking out." Would you be stout of heartsteadfast of purpose? Read Valerie Nieman."