Straight from the Drums

You can go to the dance and come home draped in the rhythms of saints or tricksters, Elegba greets you at the turn of each page. Carmen Bardeguez-Brown has fashioned these poems in the course of a lifetime of cultural immigration across two continents or three and the small islands in their midsts. As an educator and an image fashioner, Bardeguez-Brown is in the forefront of even the advance guards. She has worked this formula where ever poetry's sought and has had a foothold. These are the observation of a lifetime of expression---there is the word and the word was with all intent on hearing. These poems are still telling but never still. You have been invited to a dance, you have been invited to dance at the communion of the saints, to spring forward, "jump back and do the Camel Walk".You need only these dancing phrases. Read freely. "LOVE POEMS IN DANCE STEPS- WRITTEN IN THE DUST OF SWEET CLAY EARTH"