From the release of a firefly that must not be captured to the milkman’s bottles that rattle against their metal box, these poems are a reminder that we must not quit in the quest to keep our stories alive. Divination speaks to this passion with clear, crisp imagery and a clarity that all gathered must not be lost.
-Lois Roach, Emmy award-winning writer, stage director and producer
Divination presents the lyric soul amidst daily life and earthly travel, retrieving memory, paying homage to ghostly ancestors and moments of childhood among them when they were alive. Here, Barbara Cassidy enacts the sere concentration of a gentle visionary that evinces an understated beauty of language lit by an aura of a dazzled light that is true poetic rapture. I could not stop reading, her poetry carrying me to grace and a becalmed wonder.
-Garrett Hongo author of Ocean of Clouds
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Barbara Cassidy is a poet, singer-songwriter, and Sean-nós singer who resides in Massachusetts.