Dancing Backwards In Texas

Connie Lane Williams has barred her soul in this sometimes startling, rebellious, often comedic, occasionally dramatic collection of poems in Dancing Backwards in Texas. From the humor of self revelation, to the comfort of tradition, this collection is never boring, but full of the rhythmic twists and turns of the West Texas landscape set against the harmonies of a global consciousness.Not playing by the rules, life is always an adventure for Williams as states her case against social pragmatism in 113 pages of poetry depicted in romantic defiant lyric verse or the structure of the Mass for the Mysterious Muse. From “Kosher Dills,” a poem about a waitress outside Austin, to “Wounded Hawk,” an elegy for urban sprawl, Williams dances us backwards through the West Texas flatlands to the hill country of Austin leaving a taste of “Origami Moon” and “West Texas Wind” on our lips.