Skirting the Edge

To what form of art might the spirit aspire? What truth might the self reveal to the self were we to partake in the journey inward to where deep truth dwells? Bunny Iskov writes poems that skirt the edges and plunge the swirling eddies of sorrow and joy bringing with her the light of language and the music of poetry that illuminate as she moves from the luminous moon goddess of her opening poem through the deep sorrows of profound human experience and on to the whimsy and joy of bringing a brand new poem into the world as she describes herself in that ecstatic state of creation in her penultimate poem: between fire and inspiration, between nightfall and morning - John B. Lee, Poet Laureate of Brantford; Poet Laureate of Norfolk County In the three sections of the book, gravity and grief are equally heavy. I was shocked by the rare openness and incredible power that Bunny has woven into her poems. She asks for answers, hunts for hope, prays for peace. Bunny paints "Raw Beauty" and deep humanity with a mixture of colors on her canvas so that "the face of society removes its mask." When she quotes Pablo Picasso's "Work is love made visible"-poetry to her is the work. In "Looping for Art's Sake," she finds hope through keen eyes and a beautiful mind. I want to be in the loop too. - Anna Yin /Inaugural Poet Laureate of Mississauga