Questing and questioning are central to the poems in Renée Gregorio’s new book… always sensitive to the embodiments—scents, contours, griefs, and desires—of the places and people she encounters, as well as to her own “shape-shifter” self, Gregorio constructs an atlas equal parts humane observation and self-reflection. “I want home to exist wherever I am,” she writes, and with these poems of tender regard she has given us too a home in the world.
—Carol Moldaw, author of Beauty Refracted
Renée Gregorio’s poems flow like an elemental river of hope through a journey that is both radiantly international and locally resonant with depth… you will be poetically engaged with her actually realistic lyricism and tonal brilliance throughout.
—Jack Hirschman
emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco