If in Darkness

Sallie Bingham’s third book of poems, ded­i­cated to her mother, is fronted by an image of the Cretan Snake Goddess, the pow­er­ful and mys­te­ri­ous Neolithic god­dess whose mean­ing has never been dis­cov­ered; like­wise, these poems range from sim­ple praise of nat­ural beauty to the painful para­doxes of inti­mate rela­tions. Bingham’s poems offer beauty but no easy answers.

“Sallie Bingham’s poems forge the light and dark­ness to shape a body of work that engages and shines. The past and the present, the inner and the outer, are all drawn pre­cisely with small wis­dom lines through­out. The poetry leaves us with ‘the serene best our lives can offer’ and ‘the small whir of your lively heart.’ A fine dis­til­la­tion from a life well savored“
— Joan Logghe, President of New Mexico Literary Arts.

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