This collection of essays is an attempt by various family members to define a brother from whom brotherhood is the desideratum behind every brushstroke or utterance. Bill Bissett is family to everyone who knows him. Over the years and across the continent, he has created a grid of light that connects stranger to stranger so that none of us are strangers. We speak the same language, a phonetic liturgy that makes us all understandable to one another. Authors included are: Jamie Reid, Jay Ruzesky, Susan Musgrave, Joy Kurapatwa, Scott Watson, Adeena Karasick, Tim Carlson, Linda Rogers.

Linda Rogers is a poet passionately engaged with existence whose poems resonate a subterranean logic and the music of deep mindfulness. In Homing: New & Selected Poems she returns again and again to the unquiet ground of the theatre of life. A singular and uncompromising awareness of suffering and joy, hope and despair, the arc of naked dreams and the sense of community, informs her three decades of writing and numerous published collections. In Homing Rogers has included representative poems from previous volumes –– social poems, introspective poems, both thoughtful and exuberant –– as well as new work. The sequence is consistent and steadfast like a slow-moving train of perception through the world of time. Linda Roger’s poems sing with a compassion and concern for social justice that elevates the spirit and massages the mind. Homing is a delicate and deliberate portrait of one poet’s chronicle of residence on planet earth.

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