My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

- Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals

the silence of God is God.

- Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

- Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us