Janelle Barker

Emotives Janelle Barker

Disarming, warm and always accessible, JanelleBarker's poems make ordinary experiencesglow. Everything that suffuses her emotiveexpression is here: love, compassion, insight,lyrical precision and the clear, simple honestythat reveals how life can turn in a moment. Musing on undercurrents and connectionsbetween family, nature, memory, motherhoodand the world of circumstantial events thathave created our culture and our fears. Thepoems in this aspiring collection begin onthe surface and then delve us, gracefullyeffortlessly, to a far more thought-provokingplace. Grounded in experiences andperceptions, with all human mysteries andconsolations they resonate with a passionate,sensuous honesty that only a new Indie Authorcan expressly create.