In the Valley of Glow Trees:New and Selected Poems by

Poet Kerri McCaffrey’s first book is effervescent with color and hope and song. You will breathe easily as you read.
Kerri’s words are alive with her childhood experiences, as when she describes the legendary woman in white who fell to her death from a ledge in Sleepy Hollow: “her dark hair/ like feathers/ her scream bright orange—/a flaming oriole/ to a synesthete.”
Kerri writes from both sides of the gender line, having undergone sweeping changes in her life. These were moves which required...