Everything is Rising

"The poems in Everything is Rising are vivid in imagery and deep in emotion and nostalgia. Diane takes you to places that you may not want to go, but you are a better person by having been there.

-Barbara Marie Minney, author of If There's No Heaven

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom" according to Aeschylus. Such sagacity stirs in Everything Is Rising. Using what the poet calls "the fossil of my voice," she distills the past's influence, waking us to a world where "blood tastes like creation...