The Oracle in the Heart

A book of great beauty and charm...[Raine] has a profound, sometimes agonized understanding of what it means to be alive, to be old, to be aware always of that deeper, truer life that lies somewhere out there behind and beyond our daily existence"" - Basil Burwell, The Republican Journal. In these verses written between 1974 and 1978, Raine applies her assured lyric technique to the many themes her life experiences inspired. The works of a visionary in the lineage of Blake and Coleridge, Shelley and Yeats, who invokes the ancient wisdom of this rich heritage.