“Of all the writers I know, Joan Swift is surely one of the best at transforming reverses into poems of astonishing beauty and strength. Her particular blend of memory, imagination, feeling, and intellect creates an alchemy that changes the base metal of experience into gold.”
—Madeline DeFrees
Ploughshares
(on The Tiger Iris )
Kathy Waltzes with Mr. Nakamura
from Intricate Moves, Poems About Rape
from The Dark Path of Our Names