Rebecca Faro is a fine, passionate dancer; as in life
also in her poetry. Words, phrases, images, by turn
spin, whirl, float, hold balance - sometimes restful
sometimes tense - advance on you, disturb, caress,
penetrate, elude and illuminate, all in equal measure
and in ways that will defy you the reader to remain
unmoved.
Ranging from soulful reverie to fond remembrance,
playful musing to the spiritually meditative, her verse
is both deeply personal and at the same time readily
relatable. Subtly shifting ground from the liminal to
the mythic or fantastical, then again back to the
strongly sensual, the poems collected here add up to a
rich evocation and celebration of what it is to have
lived with vibrant awareness, and still to be embracing
the only business which really matters - that of simply,
fully, being.
Imbued with zestful energy and infused with an
exquisite sensitivity, unmistakably her own, Rebecca’s
poems flow with dynamism and grace; each page in
this her first collection a stage on which she dances
beautifully for our delight.
