Jade BradburySometimes it takes a good fright to shake us out of our customary zone. Faced with serious illness, the lifelong poet, Jade Bradbury, who'd worked as educator, print journalist, network television story editor, museum curator, writer, and community ats advocate returned to her roots. The poems gathered in this chapbook were written over a recent six-year period during which she consulted with the home elements of earth, wind, fire, and water, calling on them to guide her poetic rendering of what genuinely matters, no matter what. What emerges from what she calls the willing dirt is a living testimony on behalf of a life lived passionately in love with the natural world while attempting to make peace with a material world much in need of it. Bradbury's poems, essays, print articles and columns, book and film reviews have been published in many literary journals, daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and periodicals over several decades. She lives in California's South Bay Area. Visit her at www.jadebradbury.com Read More Read Less