With this collection of poems, the gods have granted my wish to experience the world through Lynne Santy Tanner's eyes. The meadow, the tumble of mice, the aspen leaves shivering into a thousand mirrors, and the ever-present mocking bird reveal the poet's keen vision and extraordinary precision of language. Every small thing is bigger, more vivid, and more heartfelt, and all of it will linger in your memory-just as her own memories have crystallized into these fine moments of observation and reflection. Time passes, half a century at a time and asks, What is it that breaks my heartand heals it My answer iiTen Thousand Spiderwebs Bright with Dew.i iiibr-Kathy Ackerman, i iA Quarrel of AtomsiibrpbrLynne Santy Tanner has a deep knowing - of birds, flowers, seasons - even of her neighbors' meadows in the North Carolina mountains near Chimney Rock. With an intimacy born of ease, she tells of the Hamlin Farm, black cows meandering fields laced with random fencing. There's David's land, Mark