Self-Portrait with Thorns New Release suffused with atavistic spirit and

suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time

Petra Kuppers

—Marilyn Kallet

In Silver Seasons of Heartache

Self-Portrait with Thorns New Release suffused with atavistic spirit andGail Goepferts ravishing collection, Self Portrait with Thorns, stands as stunning testimony to the power of art to salve the wounded and to serve as a durable filament connecting us one to another across the chasms of time, space, and circumstance. These poems join in lyrical conversation with the life and paintings of Frida Kahlo, the mirrored pains and losses of Kahlo and the speaker having tuned these womens instruments to the same pitch. In poems