Dancing on the Rim

“Dancing on the Rim is a book of human relationships and the complex and often painful ways the heart is forced to negotiate the world. These are insightful, brave, and honest poems, and they teach us time and again, how to live and how to love the world.” -David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia “Clela Reed possesses the poet’s eye and the poet’s gift for language, her mastery of metaphor and lushness of image evident everywhere in this collection. In surprising and delightful ways, she often links the quotidian with the primal to demonstrate the timelessness of our human yearning and connection. Here is a bright new voice in American poetry.” -Sarah Gordon