It has been said that reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.
Erica Hogan walks ceaselessly around her life lessons and examines them with complete transparency, then conveys the moment of Aha! with such clarity of mind, body, and spirit that it leaves the reader wanting more. Each poem grabs your hand and tells you do not look away! Look directly at me and see me naked beautiful in triumph and disgrace in childishness and sensuality. Erica's insights are both cleverly precise and sumptuously lyrical laced with merciful satyr and keen intensity. These poems acknowledge the mystery, the power, and the weakness of living an unflinching life fiercely humble, and without apology.
