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"IN PRAISE of MADE IN THE IMAGE"
“Jane Beal has the gift of tongues. She speaks in many voices: with the whispered wish for water in the wasteland; the yearnings of Yeats; the ecstasy of St Teresa; the chaste eroticism of the Song of Songs. She speaks in many voices but always with the One Voice that conveys the unity of meaning through the poet's polyphony.”

~ Joseph Pearce, author of _Divining Divinity_ (www.staustinreview.com)

“Jane Beal takes you on exquisite journeys to the mountains of love just as poignantly as trips taken to the underground of human behavior. She is a modern day psalmist.
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~ Yolanda Calderon-Horn, author of _Slip... More > Out of Weeping Shoes_ (lopsidepress.com/gallery)

“These poems move from the painful terrain of women's mistreatment through the ages and all over the world to an ecstatic vision of 
humanity as made in God's image. Beal's poetry bears witness to suffering from a compassionate and devotional place. As she says in “Psalm”: 'All my longings lie open before You.' As a reader, my longings are laid open by her work.”

~ Marie-Elizabeth Mali, editor of _The Book of the Villanelle_ (www.floweringlotus.com)

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