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Red Voice About the Book: Red Voice, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in September 2016, and it is available now for pre-order. Please note that if you place your order during the pre-publishing period (before July 29) shipping is only $2.99 a copy. Advance Praise: In Red Voice, Nancy Takacs explores a voice of adventure and wisdom, of finding a way, through rough music and appetite. Her Echo's breath is stopped by "the wrists of water lilies" and the necessity of the desert landscape that Takacs has lived in and loved for so many years, to reach a place where a lover must promise that "he will not speak until / it improves on silence." ‐ Donna J. Long, poet, and editor of Kestrel magazine Nancy Takacs brings Echo back to life in the poems of Red Voice. With lush, sumptuous, sensual, down to earth imagery, she re- envisions Echo's myth ‐ re-imagines how voice, life, self, can be re-sought, re-gained, and brought into alignment, oneness, with Nature, even in the context of this damaged world. From the start, we are drawn in, entangled, enchanted. Here, as throughout the body of her work, Nancy Takacs has a way of making language seem to spill onto the page: her soul, it seems, writes through her. ‐ Carol Henrikson, author of The Well and Knowing Nothing about Gypsies Nancy Takacs creates a current of language that carries us through an intense collage of wilderness, praising its bits and pieces‐ocotillo, geode, hemlock, abalone, crushed trillium, the bear. In these poems the voice of Echo thaws, unleashing a deluge of imagistic power. Like the bear coming out of hibernation and shaking off its winter muteness, these poems awaken in all of us the mystery and wilderness of language, as Takacs rediscovers the voice of Echo and allows her to speak from bicker and blaze, shutter and whorl, hurricane and whitewater ‐ Kate Kingston, award winning author of History of Grey and Shaking the Kaleidoscope About the Author: Nancy Takacs is the 2016 winner of the Juniper Prize for poetry, her collection The Worrier to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2017. She has two other books of poems, including Blue Patina recently published by Blue Begonia Press; and three chapbooks. From the Book: Echo at Dusk by Nancy Takacs Now, I like the arm of an inlet, the lip of a crevasse. I float near the turtle, the hush of his shell. My head is phrased with lilies, myrtle. My hair is husky with bluegill. Once I could belt out Moonlight Cocktail, or Round Midnight Now I'm the throaty mesh of doves and blackbirds.
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