Customer Reviews:

• "Her best book yet! Two pages and I was hooked on these loving and honest poems, framed by the deliciousness of sweets. Her descriptions of the different kinds of anguish in "Slate Sky" and "Longest Hours" and the dangerous consequence of adolescence and womanhood speak worlds of truth. Childhood memories to Adcock's own song of herself form a vivid and memorable portrait." - Sauci Churchill

• "Read this collection if you hanker for the teeter totter balance called growing up. Kathleen captures it all fully and beautifully. Each poem is a childhood." - Hiram Larew

• "With Brueghel-like attention to detail, Kathleen Adcock paints poem-pictures of place and time. Poems are skillfully crafted to juxtapose a rigid parochial life with rich,poignant family portraits. Woven throughout the abundant tapestry are the poet's crimson strokes of yearning for voice and freedom." - Sharlie West

• "Rosary beads, Betty Boop, the Philco screen, Angel, Sister Juanita, Elizabeth Taylor, movie mags, a convent, red lipstick, a stranger in boots and dungarees, a tall woman driving a convertible, Annie Oakley, Jesus' face, the pinning of the locket, organ music, fainting, Baltimore, rowhouse doors, alleys, hopscotch, jump rope --- all of this and more is relived in Kathleen Adcock's latest collection, her finest yet. These images of childhood and adolescence display a fragile sense of security constantly disturbed and undermined. Adcock's poetry is quirky, startling, unique, gratifying, poignant, vastly amusing and vividly rendered." - Joe Hagarty

• "Kathleen Adcock’s new chapbook is a marvelous collection of memories that she masterfully paints with words. Her poems take us back to a gentler time where every reader can find the joys and pains of their own childhood. There is a wonderful hope found in each of Kathleen’s poems. This is the ideal book to sit back with a mug of coffee and enjoy the beauty found in perfected poetry." - Faith-Anne Bell