Introspection – Poems

"I think [Jean] has that classic gift of rendering "felt experience" without that too-heavy touch that spoils a lot of earnest writing. [She] has a rare clarity about the microtextures in daily life that catch the glint of the huge structural and institutional pillaging of people trying to save their lives, [she] has a generosity of spirit about people already having their hands full just trying to live out their heart's wishes without the complications of the power demons and the succubi of greed, and [she] has the talent for that zen stroke that marks the complex of bundled strands that readers must disaggregate and understand themselves, or not. And they are all not up to it: it is like all the great spiritual tests. It's all there, but what can't be spelled out isn't. You get it or you don't. I am not sure how many are willing to read it until they do." - Robert Seigle