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"breathtaking in its beauty and its profound depth"
Carl Rosenstock in T.Sky Review

"The first page turner poem!"
Constance M. Berry

"[A] powerful, intelligent book...

completely persuasive"
Silliman's Blog

"[T]his book could get stunningly popular, especially if the people who read literary memoirs, but don't read much current poetry, realize that it's a poem but it's also a memoir."
Stephen Burt

Degrees of Latitudeis a book-length, narrative prose poem that maps the geography of a woman's life.

The book traces the coastline of experience and explores the interiors of emotion and consciousness as the narrator seeks to discover her place on the map at the beginning of the 21st century.

Like every epic from The Odysseyonward, Degrees of Latitudeinvolves a journey and a spiritual quest.

But this is a woman's epic.

Here the journey is as much emotional as physical; the quest is not so much for adventure as for home; and the search is not for the "other," but for a w