Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s collection, We have to Leave the Earth, is a masterful collection that suggests the reader be present in the moment and vividly experience our world as it is now, both domestic and political. The poems are those moments in dreams where the dreamer becomes lucid and sees things as they really are, like the slap of ice-cold air in the Arctic poems awakens the reader and defines the whole collection....(read more at ruthstacey.com)
