by Zanne Langlois

Anna Wrobel's collection is history lived. It is both elegy and celebration, full of mirth and ache. Wrobel has an eye for artifact--wooden bowl, leather bookmark--and she sorts through wreckage to find treasure. Crossing centuries and continents, her poems are a testament to what any good historian knows--all history is personal and our chronologies all mingled.

by Dennis Camire

….We come to hope that, if we can practice mindfulness and open heart, our own refugee souls might also experience this grand oneness of humanity...So many poems provide a taste of this sublime state of being and in doing so become for a while a promised homeland for the reader whose suffering and seeking also make them, as Anna heeds, "ripe for salvation."