Customer Reviews:

• "I really love what this author did from the title to the entire contents of well written poetry. Just as the title suggests, she is looking back, and facing forward with some great poetry." - Floria

• "Shadow Poetry has discovered another awesome poetess. I thoroughly enjoyed the chapbook of Maralee Gerke. This extremely talented writer, as the title of the book conveys, gives us her reflections past and present, beginning with a poem about the magic of writing poetry and finishing with a poem about a river (I am guessing the river shown on the book's cover). Maralee does not rhyme. She takes words and weaves them together, converting them to garments of eloquent fashion. She writes of humanity, womanhood, and of life's mystery, or she takes an ordinary scene and makes it extraordinary with imagery and superb descriptive writing. She gets an A from this English teacher." - Andrea Dietrich

• "I was pleasantly surprised by the poems in this chapbook. I use the word "surprised" because I'm somewhat prejudiced in favor of meter and am not a big fan of free verse. But Maralee writes very well, and I will continue to enjoy this chapbook. " - Deborah P. Cooper