Rough Knowledge

Poetry. There is an extraordinary lightness to this collection of poems--it is as if they are floating just above the surface of the earth, or in dream, as they celebrate love, marriage, family, friends--the small accidents and genuine delights of everyday life. The poems are filtered through a sweet and deeply thoughtful sensibility. You will grow to love the narrator of these poems as she leads us, bravely and with caritas, to the threshold of things, frightening or heavenly, that might be about to happen. Christine Poreba's debut collection is radiantly lovely.: --Sidney Wade