"To write with brevity takes great skill and spiritual depth, and Mimi White has both. Her poems resonate like a temple bell that keeps sounding long after it's been rung.
She writes with great delicacy and precision and with an uncanny ability to listen to the white space between image and line, so the very brevity of the poems becomes spacious. These poems are attuned to the natural world, so finely observant we feel an overflowing of life in each moment, each bird, wave, sun gleam and tree she names.
Even in grief for her beloved husband, White has a light touch that welcomes the reader in, a stillness that makes room for life. They are indeed burnished-poems to cherish, fully alert to the world and unafraid to lay aside self to make room for wonder and mystery."
