Ms. Dyc's vivid and moving poems take the reader on a journey of
mind, body, and spirit through geographical and cultural distances:
from childhood in Detroit with her Polish immigrant grandparents to
mid-life in the West among Native Americans. As the title of her poem
"Paying Attention" directs, she observes people and landscapes not
only with her eyes, but with her heart. Her poetry of life and
rituals among the Lakota are particularly vibrant. "Beyond," the
transcendent, reveals its presence through people and landscapes
through-out this collection until, in meditative tones, Dyc envisions
the end in her last quietly stunning poem: I imagine this is how it
will be in the end a brightening of a candle in a paper lantern and
then a darkness lighter than light. This is a collection to treasure!
Joan Gartland, reviewer for "Library Journal" Always it's hard to get
beyond distance, but we try no matter how hard the journey is. It's
never a simple matter of crossing the prairie from the Black Hills to
more mountains to more prairie. It's mostly the same landscape of the
exterior and the interior, i.e., what's outside of us and what's
inside of us-and what matters is the truth as poet Gloria Dyc shows
us excruciatingly in East West and Beyond. Her poems even make us
realize what we remember are maps and what we don't remember are maps
too! Simon J. Ortiz, poet, author of "Woven Stone" I'm just a guy
from Queens, New York, but Gloria Dyc's "Thinning the Herd" in this
collection speaks to me in its language of herds, corrals, lactating
mares, and scarce hay due to drought - because the colts have to be
sold to buy hay and pay for a funeral, and a boy has to accept this,
and the mare's milk leaks out onto the snow as they walk . .. As
always, in art it's not always things that move us, but how people
and other living creatures live amongst and react to those things.
Morty Sklar, The Spirit That Moves Us Press Led not by a hum but by
an opera, you follow this poet wherever she goes, riding on the
music, trusting, every minute, in her creation. lily pond, editor of
"Seven Hundred Kisses: A Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing" (Harper
Row, San Francisco)
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