Semidomesticated

Jonie McIntire's "Semidomesticated" is looking and longing among the kitchen utensils, clearance aisles, and chemotherapy appointments that make up a life. There is so much generosity here that speaks to the daily trials we find ourselves in, as we navigate between homes and doctor's offices and jobs. How do we deal with personal loss in the face of so much being lost every day? What happens when "As if, like a miracle, all of that just being there/ added up to something, ..." What happens is a pure poetic voice and a calmness of spirit-sometimes a murmur, sometimes a roar-that assuredly guides us on these journeys of a daughter, a mother, a lover, a true friend. It is a voice we can trust to give, and keep us going. It is a voice we need to be listening to. - Timothy Geiger, author of Weatherbox, winner of the 2019 Vern Rutsala Poetry Award, (Cloudbank Books, 2019), The Curse of Pheromones, (Main Street Rag Press, 2008) & Blue Light Factory, (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1999) and nine chapbooks, most recently Radium(Cabaret Press, 2015). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize XVIII and a Holt, Rinehart and Winston Award in Literature.