Patricia Clark

from poet Mary Stewart Hammond:
"Wondering is a small town in Montana. In Patricia Clark's North of Wondering, with its ambitious allusion to Robert Frost's first collection, North of Boston, place, culture and climate intersect with reasoning and emotions to map the contours of wondering, as if the word itself were a small town, or a particular region, somewhere, that she wanted us to experience in all its complexity, from the nuances of questioning to marveling. The poems, while seeming to mosey to their destinations, create such suspense and pleasure in the turnings of the lines, the leaps and connections of the mind and heart, that we hurry down the page. Their superbly crafted, supple, and wise progression reminds us that the best poems are about more than voice: they are also about vision. Without question, this is a wonderful first collection."