Morning of the red-tailed hawk

A combination of strange glory and sturdy dailiness makes Bettie Sellers' poetry special. She never loses sight of the ordinary realities of living and dying and suffering and rejoicing, but behind the ordinary is always that light which comes form the other side of time. These poems are suffused with that reality which is really Real, that truth which suddenly helps us understand all the deepest perplexities and confusions of this troubled century and our troubled times. -- Madeleine L'EngleIn sharply etched images of the land and its people, of friends and neighbors and kin. Bettie Sellers conjures up an evocative and memorable picture of rural North Georgia, and she does so with poignancy and insight, and with that rarest of qualities in contemporary poetry -- heart. -- Larry Rubin